Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Bug in group-list addressing?
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.181226.23284@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:12:26 GMT
References: <27DEC0A5.27852@ics.uci.edu> <9103141643.AA01929@anywhere>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Lines: 25

In article <9103141643.AA01929@anywhere> aks%anywhere@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Alan Stebbens) writes:
>> Unfortunately, MH alias files don't work this way.  See mh-alias(5)
>> for more details.  To get the result you want, use:
>> 
>> 	To: A List of People: myalias ;
>
>Is this designed to work that way?  Is there some reason why the group
>list parsing can't be done *after* the alias substitution?  I'll do the
>code unless someone already familiar with it tells me that's it's
>unfeasible because of some offered reason.

  If you must 'fix' it, be sure you don't break it.  That is, if you want
do alias substitution then parse, make sure you do another alias substitution
afterwards.

  After all, there really may be uses for:

To:  A list of people: myalias, user_without_alias ;


-- 
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940