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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Expanding local aliases
Message-ID: <4369@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 13:50:09 GMT
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Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson) writes:

>Hi, we are running elm 2.3 patchlevel 8 here, and I have some questions
>about the aliasing.  I have an alias "tome", which is defined as the
>following:

>tome = Jimmy Page = tome

>Yes, he is a user on my own machine.  When I use this alias, I was getting
>the message "Couldn't expand system tome" at the bottom of the screen, but
>it worked okay.  Now, today, after trying to set an alias for a mailing
>list (also on this machine) like this:

>zeppelin = Led Zeppelin Mailing List = zeppelin

>This didn't work at all, when I tried it out elm would say To: ??? rather
>than zeppelin, and so I tried this:

>zeppelin = Led Zeppelin Mailing List = zeppelin@ux.acs.umn.edu

>Which did the exact same thing, and now the tome alias does this also.

>Is there anything I can do about this?  Anything that can be done about
>this?

Well, I use elm 2.3 PL11, and I do NOT have this problem. But maybe your
alias-file is too long, so elm has trouble to expand the latest entries?
(Normally one can only alias aroun 251 aliases, depending on the machine.
And I had once a Problem with too long aliases to expand...
Anyhow I'm just an elm-newcomer...
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