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From: willemk@nijmeg (willem kutschruiter)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Expanding local aliases
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.112452.6807@nijmeg>
Date: 29 Jan 91 11:24:52 GMT
References: <3112@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: Intergraph European Manufacturing Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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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?

Yes,

Recompile your alias file.
This solved it at my site.

>Thanks for your help,
>		--Eric
>-- 
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Willem Kutschruiter.      Sr Technician network systems.

Intergraph Nijmegen,  The Netherlands
Phone +31 (80) 525709  ext 709   Mailpath : willemk@nijmeg.ingr.COM