Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.1 User aliases
Message-ID: <4356@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 88 19:58:06 GMT
References: <5@subch.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <5@subch.UUCP> maxim@subch.UUCP (Maxim Samo) writes:
+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.

Did you run the "newalias" command? It converts the alias text file into the
data file  and hash tables that elm uses. When you edit the alias text file
on your own you need to run this program. (If you add an alias within elm,
elm appends the alias to the text file and runs newlias on its own.)
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