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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Subject: Re: edit aliases manually
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.145452.17781@DSI.COM>
- Keywords: alias,manual,edit
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
- References: <ladeb7INNbgo@kalahari.cs.utexas.edu> <ladf50INNbik@kalahari.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Sep4.025228.28362@DSI.COM> <lagv52INN70g@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 14:54:52 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- spiegl@cs.utexas.edu (Andreas Spiegl) writes:
- >But now I have another problem:
- >I have very long aliases, as I grouped a couple of people into one alias.
- >I already split it up, so that there are no more than 3 addresses assigned
- >to one alias name. But even with only two names per alias, newalias
- >complains that the names are too long.
- >I must commit that the addresses are fairly long, e.g.
- > spiegl@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- >but there is no way of changing THAT. So what can I do about this?
- You don't have long aliases, you have an illegal alias name (not aliased
- address)
-
- 2.3's alias tables require that the alias name, quoting the Elm Alias Guide:
-
- The major limitation with group aliases is that each of the
- people in the list must be a previously defined alias
- or a valid mail address on the current machine.
-
- Thus
-
- > spiegl@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- does not fit that rule. It, as an alias name is too long. Now
- as an aliased address its not too long.
-
- You need to say:
-
- spiegel = = spiegl@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- ...
-
- then
-
- group = = spiegel, .....
-
- Boy, will I be glad when 2.4 is released and we throw out this
- alias subsystem for a more rational one.
- --
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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