-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02-Aug-2002/10:06 -0700, Sam Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's the first Unix mailer I've encountered that doesn't support >/etc/aliases. The aliases file is a standard file used by things like >sendmail and the like. > >Traditionally, you use the aliases file to store aliases for e-mail >addresses. When you use a mail composer and enter one of the aliases from >that file, either the composer looks in that file and completes the >address, or it allows the alias to remain and tries to send the mail >anyway (it allows the MTA decide if the alias is valid or not)
If you're talking about Pine, that expansion is done by parsing /etc/passwd, not /etc/aliases. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE9TFp7pCpg3WyUI50RAqp8AKCiEHteMn3P3V8cdcV4UVtfyYSqDACg5BuW yww7Minrk8uEjbM2UoS1qgY= =F6CV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
