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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newalias different on pl 11 ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.011431.10002@DSI.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 01:14:31 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.143250.14882@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <36527@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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jfk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (James F. Kennedy) writes:
>I ran into this problem too and all I can figure out is that
>the middle field (or comment field) is no longer optional.
>Therefore, if I read your alias file correctly (from the 1 line), all
>or most of your lines are in the format:

>alias = address

>while this used to be okay, PL11 seems to require a comment field, so
>the proper format is:

>alias = comment = address

>Making sure all of your lines conforms to this should fix your problem.

>My query is, why was this changed (anybody) ?
As I said before, because the bug that allowed having no comment field
was fixed.  (The comment field pointed to something wrong in that case).
It has always been required, but a bug let lines without it slip by
in 2.3.
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