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- Danny Bar-Dov wrote:
- >
- > However when I do follow-up on a message that had an alias on its
- > To/CC lines, I never get to these lines,
- > so the alias never gets expanded.
-
- If the alias you're talking about is in /usr/lib/aliases, then it is
- in itself a valid mail address. There's no need to expand it. If
- the alias you're talking about appears only in some other user's
- .mailrc file, then you should never see it in messages you recieve:
- those aliases are private, and get expanded before the message is
- inserted into the mail stream.
-
- So either there's no problem, or your mailer configuration broken.
-
- > BTW the same alias appears both in my .mailrc & in the system's.
-
- Having an alias in your private .mailrc file as well as in the global
- /usr/lib/aliases file doesn't make any sense. That's either redundant
- or contradictory.
-
- -- Jamie
-
-