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- From: a-n@nwu.edu (A. Natarajan)
- Subject: Does Filter recognize aliases?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.171402.12598@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Originator: nataraj@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
- Keywords: Filter, aliases
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- Reply-To: a-n@nwu.edu (A. Natarajan)
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:14:02 GMT
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- System: Sun 4m running 4.1.2_DB 14
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- Elm: 2.3 PL 11
-
- Can filter recognize aliases in its rulesets? My .elm/filter-rules
- contains the following rules:
-
- if ( subject contains "FORTRAN" ) forward "ftnlist"
- if ( subject contains "data" ) forward "dblist"
-
- My .elm/aliases.text contains lines as follows:
-
- ftnlist = FORTRAN Users = user1@fqdn1, user2@fqdn2
- dblist = DataBase Users = user3@fqdn3, user4@fqn4
-
- I have run "elmalias -q" to update the list of aliases.
-
- Filter leaves all the mail that would have been forwarded in
- EMERGENCY_MBOX.
-
- So I thought that maybe filter hands off outgoing mail to "sendmail" or
- "mail" rather than "elm" itself, and I created a .mailrc file in my $HOME
- with the same aliases as above: (note: I can't run newaliases, and I don't
- need to?)
-
- ftnlist FORTRAN_Users user1.... etc.
- (Note the underscore)
-
- No dice - filter hands off the stuff to EMERGENCY_MBOX again.
-
- I cannot see anything in the Filter Guide( dated May 1, 1990). I must be
- doing something stupid, would appreciate a pointer or two. Sorry if this
- is a FAQ.
-
-