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From: steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Question or problem with 2.1
Message-ID: <1000@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 21:59:49 GMT
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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I am not sure if this counts as a bug or user error, but it is a change
from something I liked about 1.7b:

Sometimes I like to edit my aliases list by hand, which I should be able
to do with a normal editor on the text version of the alias file.  But
when I do what I did with 1.7b, which is to edit the text file and rm
the other two files, it doesn't find any of the aliases.  My old trick
to get around that was to create a bogus alias (z:z:z) with elm commands,
and then the "rereading database in" would rebuild the hashed versions.

In 2.1, elm isn't doing that anymore.  I admit to have not read the new
manual, but I looked at the "changes" file and it didn't have it.  I know
I should ask my sysadmin these kinds of things, but since I am sysadmin
here that doesn't do it.  If it's in the manual, pardon me for not hunting
there.

As a temporary work-around, I'll use the old elm for aliased mail.

	Steve Schonberger
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