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From: aks%anywhere@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Alan Stebbens)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Bug in group-list addressing?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 02:28:03 GMT
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I'm not sure where the bug in this occurs, but I'll describe what
happened and let other's volunteer an answer; they always do anyway :^)

I set the To: line as follows:

	To: myalias

In my -alias file, the following alias exists:

	myalias: A List of People: user1, user2, user3, user4;
	user1: user1@host1 (User One)
	user2: user2@host2 (User Two)
	user3: user3@host3 (User Three)
	user4: user4@host4 (User Four)

This produces, by "whom", the following:

	-- Local Recipients
	user4

	-- Network Recipients --
	user1@host1
	user2@host2
	user3@host3

Notice the strange fact that user4 remains unqualified, as if his alias
wasn't found.

But, if I form the alias this way:

	myalias: A List of People: user1, user2, user3, user4, ;

it works just fine.  I suppose a null address gets generated and
subsequently ignored somewhere in the process, but who cares?

That's just the output from "whom" which works.  When the mail actually
gets sent, however, something different happens: the mail gets formed
like this:

	To: A List of People: ;@myhost, user2@host2, user3@host3,
		user4@host4

which is quite strange.  It tells me, though, that the group list
parsing is done *before* the aliasing, or some of it anyway (the first
pass?).

Also, why does "@myhost" get tacked on behind the group list?  Is this
done by MH or my sendmail config?

Ok, you all tell me what I've done wrong and how to do what I would like
to do: create an alias which maps to a group list of people.

Thanks, I guess.
Alan