From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 4 11:26:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18095 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 11:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (proot@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18084 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 11:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04101; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:26:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199708041826.NAA04101@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Elm aliases? To: kleon@bellsouth.net Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:26:34 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <33E606EE.B4A@bellsouth.net> from Keith Leonard at "Aug 4, 97 11:44:30 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Keith Leonard said: > Howdy, > > On my main machine (486DX4 with 32 megs ram) I have installed elm as my > mail reader. After setup I created file aliases.text per Elm User Guide > and ran 'newaliases' the result was that I could type 'me' at the > Reply-To: prompt and have my full name and email inserted automatically. > > Now the problem, same install on laptop same proceedure and set up to > duplicating .profile on both machine (using bash). Same aliases.text > file in ~/.elm/, same 'newaliases', --- NO ALIAS!. It reports the same > number of aliases no matter what I put in the aliases.text file (and I > put some very colorful aliases. > > I've had both machines up and running at the same time - every thing > looks the same, created two (one on each machine) new aliases.text file > and ran 'newaliases' on both. Result - desktop machine - new aliases are > create and work in elm. Laptop machine - NO new aliases and total > failure. > > Something I've missed??? It should be newalias not newaliases. The 'newalias' command is elm, 'newaliases' is sendmail. Other than that, permissions? Paul. -- 99 Reasons Baseball is Better Than Football - Number 10: Baseball has no penalties at all. A home run is a home run. You cheer. In football, on a score, you look for flags. If there's one, who's it on? When can we cheer? Football acts can all be repealed. Baseball acts stand forever. - Tom Boswell, _The Heart of the Order_