Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!noao!asuvax!hrc!rave!lynn From: lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: multiple aliases on To: line in mail Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 89 13:22:27 GMT Sender: lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com Distribution: gnu.emacs Organization: Motorola MCD Lines: 35 Sorry if this has been discussed before. I figure I'm doing something wrong ... For reference, I'm using GNU Emacs 18.54 on a Motorola 68030 Unix machine. It is my understanding that GNU's mail understands mailx's .mailrc aliases. If my .mailrc has two lines, e.g.: alias joe sys1!sys2!joe alias fred sys3!sys4!fred and I execute the mail command and say simply: To: joe (or To: fred) the mail goes out fine. However, if I say: To: joe fred it gets bounced back to me with "invalid recipient" messages for each of joe and fred followed by a "command failed /bin/lmail 'joe' 'fred'" type of message. I'm sure I'm not the first to have had this problem or else I'm doing something dumb. What gives? -- ================================================================= Lynn D. Newton | System Test Motorola MCD, Tempe, AZ | (Department of Heuristic Methodology) (602) 437-3739 | "The bug stops here!" lynn@rave.phx.mcd.mot.com |