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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Question or problem with 2.1
Summary: Changing aliases always did require newalias
Message-ID: <2@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 04:00:00 GMT
References: <1000@raspail.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <1000@raspail.UUCP> steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) writes:
>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.

The command newalias is and was required to rebuild the hashed version
of the alias database.  When you created the bogus alias that
automatically runs newalias.  You don't need to do that bogus
one however.  Just run newalias from the shell.  It automatically
rebuilds the alias files in your .elm directory.  You do not
have to even remove them.

If you are in elm and use a shell escape to rebuild the aliases it
is necessary to leave elm and return to get the new aliases as elm
has already read them into memory (If it has used them already, else
it will find them when it does read it for the first time).

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