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- From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
- Subject: Re: mail aliasing problem
- In-Reply-To: meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com's message of 1 Sep 92 21: 49:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <HOLLEN.92Sep2085444@peg.megatek.UUCP>
- Sender: hollen@megatek.com (Dion Hollenbeck)
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <1109@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:54:44 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- >>>>> On 1 Sep 92 21:49:49 GMT, meb4593@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Michael Bain) said:
-
- Michael> Aliases *sort of* work for me. When used singley for a
- Michael> message they work fine, however if I include more than one
- Michael> then none of them are expanded. Mush works fine with the
- Michael> alias file and (obviously) the mail-aliases variable contains
- Michael> the aliases that I'm trying to use. Possibly, the mail alias
- Michael> file isn't formatted *exactly* the way it needs it? I
- Michael> noticed it didn't care to have comments on the same line as
- Michael> the alias.
-
- You don't say how you are typing the aliases. However, I had the
- problem, and yours may be the same. If you type several standard
- users names in the To: line, you can separate them with a space, a
- comma, or a space and a comma. These will all work, however they are
- not strictly legal. The official format is a comma and no space.
- There are some mailers which will handle all this for you and others
- which will not. The GNU Emacs mailer will, unless you use aliases.
- When you use an alias you MUST separate all user names and aliases
- with only commas. Try doing this and see if your problem disappears.
- If you are not doing this, then you should re-post and include an
- example of EXACTLY what you are doing, we then will be able to better
- answer your question.
-
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