Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!apple!mrspoc!itkin From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Expanding aliases Message-ID: <1991May26.190256.28344@mrspoc.Transact.COM> Date: 26 May 91 19:02:56 GMT References: <1991May23.202750.20868@dvorak.amd.com> Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM Organization: Transact Software Lines: 32 eleight@cayman.amd.com (Elizabeth Leight) writes: >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 > grahms: Graham Stewart > > 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). The reason that Mr. Everitt's name gets included is that it is picked up from the password (/etc/passwd) file. Since Mr. Stewart does not have a local login, his name is not expanded. There are a couple of ways to do this, but the simplest is to create a system-wide alias file (check you Elm configuration for the location) that includes the aliases that you want expanded for all users of the local system, and then compile with "newalias -g". -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ : : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California : : itkin@Transact.COM :