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From: gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Multi-pass Anti-aliasing
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Date: 1 Oct 90 18:25:12 GMT
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Reply-To: gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink)
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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One of the things that has bugged me about mh for a while is the fact,
that unlike standard Unix mail, mail aliases in mh are only expanded
once.

For example, if I have
Mark: lastname@machine.univ.edu

in my alias file and I also want to put Mark on one of my mailing
lists, 

M-list: Mark, <etc> 

does not expand `Mark`, and therefore has an illegal address error.

Especially in my usage, where I have several different
application-specific alias files, with some duplications, it is a pain
to have to transfer these all over to every new alias.

Has this been implemented in a release we don't have yet?  Has anybody
written such a front end?

Here is my configuration:

version: MH 6.5 #77[UCI] (merge.zk3.dec.com) of Wed Mar 14 21:58:52 EST 1990
options: [BANG] [ATZ] [ISI] [MHRC] [WHATNOW] [BSD42] [BERK] [TTYD]
         [DUMB] [MHE] [NETWORK] [BIND] [RPATHS] [SBACKUP='"#"']
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP]

--George
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