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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Does Aliasing work in any version of Elm?
Keywords: aliasing elm working what_version
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.190818.7743@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 13 Feb 91 19:08:18 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.163215.21166@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
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jeffo@uiuc.edu wrote:
>For some reason, I don't know what would make aliasing work or not work,
>my aliases either don't expand correctly or they don't expand at all.

>Another alias related question:  When I say 'newalias' on the command
>line, it goes through and checks the system aliases, not MY aliases.
>  (I've temporarily
>forgotten whether the program is call 'newaliases' or 'newalias', but I've
>typed it correctly and seen the program working.)

You've gotten a bit confused.  Newaliases is a program that builds an
alias database for use with sendmail using the data file /etc/aliases as
input.  Newalias is an ELM utility that builds an alias database for an
individual user using ~/.elm/aliases.text as input. If you ELM aliases
are not getting expanded, you've probably forgotten to run newalias.
-- 
Rob Bernardo					Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US		phone: (415) 827-4301