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From: steve@nshore.uucp (Stephen Walick)
Subject: Re: Forwarding Mail to a Group of Users
Reply-To: uunet!ncoast!nshore!steve (Stephen Walick)
Organization: Nshore Hacking and Salvage
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 00:09:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.000954.8114@nshore.uucp>
Followup-To: comp.mail.elm
References: <156@vlink01.UUCP> <12855@netcom.UUCP>

As quoted from <12855@netcom.UUCP> by dillon@netcom.UUCP (John Altinbay):

+---------------
| In article <156@vlink01.UUCP> steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) writes:
| 
| >I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several
| >people as a "forwarding alias".
| 
| Thanks.  Please post.  He's not the only one that wants to know.
+---------------

I had originally replied via 'e-mail', but you've asked for a "follow-
up" posting, so here's a copy of the message that I had e-mailed....

Since this is posted to < comp.mail.elm >, I presume you're using the
'Elm' mailer.  All you would have to do is < man newalias > and bring
up the following which is very easy.  I would use the < newalias -g >
form to make it a system alias.

----------------< begin 'man newaslias' >----------------


     NEWALIAS(1L)USENET	Community Trust	(Elm Version 2.3) NEWALIAS(1L)


     NAME
	  newalias - install new elm aliases for user and/or system

     SYNOPSIS
	  newalias [-g]

     DESCRIPTION
	  Newalias creates new hash and	data files from	a text file.
	  If the program is invoked with the -g	(global) flag, the
	  program updates the system alias files.  Otherwise, the
	  program looks	for a file called $HOME/.elm/aliases.text and,
	  upon finding it, creates files $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash and
	  $HOME/.elm/aliases.data for the elm program.

	  The format that the program expects is;

	       alias, alias, ..	= comment = address
	  or
	       alias, alias, ..	= comment = alias, alias, ...

	  The first form is for	an individual user such	as;

	       dave, taylor = Dave Taylor = veeger!hpcnou!dat

	  and the second is for	defining a group alias such as;

	       gurus = Unix Gurus = alan, john,	dave, mike, richard,
				 larry,	t_richardson


	  Note that lines can be continued at will, blank lines	are
	  accepted without error, and that any line starting with '#'
	  is considered	a comment and is not processed.

	  Aliases are case insensitive so dave and Dave	are both the
	  same alias.

	  Finally, aliases can contain other aliases, and/or groups;

	       unix = Unix people = gurus, taylor, jonboy


     FILES
	  $HOME/.elm/aliases.text	  alias	source for user
	  $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash	  alias	hash table for user
	  $HOME/.elm/aliases.data	  alias	data file for user
	  /usr/local/lib/aliases.text	  alias	source for system
	  /usr/local/lib/aliases.hash	  alias	hash table for system
	  /usr/local/lib/aliases.data	  alias	data file for system


     Page 1					     (printed 5/31/90)


     NEWALIAS(1L)USENET	Community Trust	(Elm Version 2.3) NEWALIAS(1L)


     AUTHOR
	  Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

     SEE ALSO
	  elm(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)

     DIAGNOSTICS
	  Newalias has a couple	of descriptive error messages which
	  don't	need to	be detailed here.  It is, however, worth
	  noting that the checkalias program can be used to ensure
	  that the aliases are in the proper order and are available
	  for the elm system.

     BUG REPORTS TO
	  Syd Weinstein	 elm@DSI.COM	(dsinc!elm)

     COPYRIGHTS
	  O Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
	  O Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust


     Page 2					     (printed 5/31/90)

----------------< begin 'man newaslias' >----------------

Now, if you're talking about mail coming in from outside of your ma-
chine, then you're talking about a < smail > alias or a < sendmail >
alias file, neither of which are "faliases".

Regards....                                                Steve Walick

-- 

Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the  < XBBS >  program  at  NCoast.ORG
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