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From: eleight@cayman.amd.com (Elizabeth Leight)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Expanding aliases
Message-ID: <1991May23.202750.20868@dvorak.amd.com>
Date: 23 May 91 20:27:50 GMT
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I'm not sure whether this is an elm problem, or a sendmail configuration
problem, but here goes. 

We have some aliases set up, in /etc/aliases, that look like:

	everitt: Dave Everitt <everitt@pedigree>
	grahms: Graham Stewart <grahms@pedigree>
 
	Where everitt also has a local userid, but grahms does not.

If, in elm, you send mail to everitt, who has a local userid, then
the alias is expanded to show "Dave Everitt".  However, if you send
mail to grahms, who does not have a local userid, then the alias
is not expanded.  The problem is that we'd like to have the alias
expanded, so that users know they're sending to the right person (we
have a few with similiar aliases).  

We're using ELM 2.3 PL11
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Elizabeth Leight
elizabeth.leight@amd.com