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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Does Aliasing work in any version of Elm?
Keywords: aliasing elm working what_version
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.142031.15738@DSI.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 91 14:20:31 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.163215.21166@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb11.203437.27046@DSI.COM> <1991Feb12.043325.14196@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson) writes:
>In <1991Feb11.203437.27046@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>>Thats why Patch 11 came out.  Their was a minor glitch in patch 10
>>that broke newalias.  If you get patch 11 from the archive-server
>>and apply it, then rerun newalias, all should be ok.

>I *just* tried it on another system that is running Elm v2.3 PL11.  I
>tried sending mail to an alias I had created that goes:

>tester1 = tester2 = tester3

>I sent mail to 'tester1' and I saw 'tester1' in the To: field of the
>headers.  So, right now I'd say that PL11 has the same problem.
I'd see if that system installed the PL11 newalias or just the
PL11 elm binary.  Newalias does work a pl11.

>Also, if I run newalias, why doesn't Elm check MY aliases, I'm not
>interested in what the system's aliases are, I'd like for Elm to do
>the error checking & updating of the alias.* files in MY ~/.elm/.
Newalias doesn't check anything, it compiles a aliases.text file
into aliases.data and aliases.hash.   Unless you have system privlidges
and give it a flag, newalias always compiles your local aliases, even
for root, it compiles the local aliases.

As to Elm, Elm, if it finds the local aliases file uses them first,
then the system aliases next.  Plus, as a saftey measure, a system
alias is not allowed to 'recurse' into a user alias.

Checkaliases is nothing more than an option to Elm.  If you are having
trouble, look at the aliases.data file, its plain text, make sure
its the data from the aliases.text file (its slightly different
format, but the same data - format is just the expansion
of the alias, not the alias itself, as in 'address (comment)'.

If thats ok, then run Elm with debugging and see if it finds and
loads the user aliases.  Perhaps something is compiled or installed
incorrectly.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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