Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Fullname capability in smail 3.x? Message-ID: <26BEC14F.1721@tct.uucp> Date: 7 Aug 90 13:25:34 GMT References: <201@dynasys.UUCP> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 30 According to jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher): >First, I liked the fullname function in smail 2.5. >You just run nptx and stick the results in the fullnames file. Well, then, I suppose we'll have to suggest that Smail 3.1 users keep a copy of the Smail 2.5 distribution. :-) >In a related question: I decided to use nptx from smail2.5 and use the >results in the alias file. I would, however, like to keep the file with >the full name aliases in some other file. You can create an entirely new director. Make a copy of the "aliases" entry in the directors file, changing the name of the director and the name of the alias file. I use this approach for system-wide aliases owned by me. The second directors entry is just like "aliases", but the name of the director is "aliases_chip" and its definition includes "file = aliases.chip". It also specifies "owner = chip" and "set_user = chip". However, there is a simpler way. According to the friendly documentation, an alias file can have :include: directives. For example, if you want to put your fullnames alias information in the file "fullnames", add this line to your aliases file: :include:fullnames Piece of pie. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,