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From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm Aliases
Keywords: long aliases routing machines
Message-ID: <2328@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 19:09:52 GMT
Sender: heiser@sud509.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin @ Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA)
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I'm having a problem with Elm aliases.  The fact that the Aliases.guide
needs "troff -mn", and my machine tells me "Cannot open /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.n"
isn't helping much .. (I *tried* to RTFM :-)  I tried it without the -mn,
but the Laserwriter prints it such that the text continues off the end of
the page.

Anyway, here's the real problem (aliases) ...

Here's an alias file that works:

{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} cat aliases.text
person = Some Person = person%machine@router

{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} newalias
Updating your personal alias file...
Processed 1 aliases

{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} listalias
person           person%machine@router (Some Person)

So far, so good.  But now if I add a second party to the alias list,
it bombs out:

{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} cat aliases.text
person = Some Person = person%machine@router,jones

{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} newalias
Updating your personal alias file...
** Bad alias name: person%machine@router.  Too long.

** Not saving tables!  Please fix and re-run newalias!

{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} listalias
{tdw206:/home/heiser/.elm} 


Am I doing something wrong here, or is there a problem with newalias?

Thanks in advance,
Bill







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