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- From: dps@delhi.esd.sgi.com (D.P. Suresh)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: How to make an alias to a group of people
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 02:29:52 GMT
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- Go into the aliases option.
- Them m)ake a new alias. Give the alias name, alias full name
- and when you come to the address part, give a *blank* separated
- list of addresses of all the persons in the group (say your classmates).
-
- If this is too big, (tooo big aliases cannot be accepted by elm)
- and you find it tiresome to key in all addresses, there is a
- file $HOME/.elm/aliaes.text. The format of this file is:
- <aliasname> = <aliasfullname> = <address>[, <address>]...
-
- So to make a group of 3 persons a1, a2 and a3 the file can contain
- a1 = This is a1 = a1@a1machine
- a2 = This is a2 = a2@a2machine
- a2 = This is a2 = a2@a2machine
- groupa = This contains a1 a2 and a3 = a1, a2, a3
-
- Note that this gives you two levels of aliasing. More that two levels
- is strictly *prohibited*.
-
- So after putting this in $HOME/.elm/aliases.text go into aliases
- and make a dummy alias. This make elm to hash all the entries that
- you faked in. if you feel, you could delete the dummy alias once
- through.
-
- If you dont know how to make an alias at *all*. Here is it.
- go into o)ptions. Make yourself an intermediate user.[U)ser <space>]
- get into a)lias. chose m)ake an alias.
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- D.P.Suresh
- dps@esd.sgi.com
-