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- From: larry@iem.com (Larry Fenske)
- Subject: Re: Distribution lists in elm
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:41:55 GMT
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- gotwols@warper.jhuapl.edu (Bruce Gotwols) writes:
- : Can anyone tell me how to send mail to a distribution list
- : under elm? if that's not possible, is there any way to send mail
- : to a distribution list?
- : Thanks, bruce
-
- There are a couple of ways that I can think of, and all of them work
- under elm. You can set up a global elm alias, a personal elm alias, a
- sendmail alias with the mailing list in the alias file, or a sendmail
- alias with the mailing list in a separate file. The advantage of the
- last two solutions is that the same alias will work with other mailers
- besides elm, as well as working with elm.
-
- Sendmail aliases are in /usr/lib/aliases. The name on the left side of
- the colon (":") will expand to the stuff on the right side. If the
- right side is a comma-separated list of names, that is what the alias
- will expand to. If the right side is of the form
-
- :include:/some/unix/file
-
- then sendmail will look in that file for the comma-separated list of
- names. This is handy for allowing someone besides super-user to
- maintain the mailing list.
-
- After changing /usr/lib/aliases, run newaliases (as super-user).
-
-
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