Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!texbell!merkin!hack From: hack@merkin.cactus.org (Greg Hackney) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Elm 2.1 User aliases Message-ID: <522@merkin.cactus.org> Date: 6 Dec 88 23:58:16 GMT References: <5@subch.UUCP> Reply-To: hack@merkin.cactus.org (Greg Hackney) Organization: Grand Prairie, Texas Lines: 29 In article <5@subch.UUCP> maxim@subch.UUCP (Maxim Samo) writes: >Hello Elm Users, > >Not long ago I installed the new elm 2.1 and it works fine with one exception: >The user defined aliases won't work. Even though an aliases.text file is >generated by elm they won't get expanded nor will the mail be sent to the >right address, when I mail to an alias. >Anybody has or had the same trouble and found a solution? Alias files are slightly different now: 1. The text file is now in .elm/aliases.text instead of .alias_text. 2. The field delimiter's are '=' instead of ':'. 3. After editing the text file, you have to convert it into database format by running the *new* version of the "newalias" command. Here's an example: mary = Mary Smith = system1!ms kim = Kim Harvey = system1!system2!kh bob = Bob Jones = bj sysop= Yours truly= root gals = The girls = mary, kim guys = The boys = bob, sysop all = All of us = guys, gals -- Greg