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From: khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Including human names in outbound mail
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Date: 29 Nov 90 14:08:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: marty@ultra.com's message of 29 Nov 90 03:49:15 GMT

In article <1990Nov29.034915.1986@ultra.com> marty@ultra.com (Marty Lyons) writes:

   Is there any way in mh to define aliases, such that I can include a
   person's real name?  For example, I want to have mail going out
   with the following RFC822 style headers:

   From: Marty Lyons <marty@ultra.com>
   To:   Joe Smith <joe@anycompany.com>
      .
      .
   cc:   Another User <user@bigschool.edu>

yes, this is possible.  here is how the above would be listed in an
alias file:

joe: Joe Smith <joe@anycompany.com>
user: Another User <user@bigschool.edu>

which will substitute the entire alias, including the name, into the
message.  to get the alias functionality, create a file in your mh
mail directory (mine is ~/.Mail/mhaliases) and add a line similar to
the following in your .mh_profile: (assumes mh 6.7)

AliasFile: mhaliases

then when you send mail ``To: joe'' or ``cc: user'', it will
substitute the alias when it gets sent.  if the name contains funny
characters like a period or apostrophe, it is safest to put the name
in double quotes or parentheses:

phil: "Mr. Phil" <phil@somewhere.over.there>

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