Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:26:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: kleon@bellsouth.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elm aliases? Message-ID: <199708041826.NAA04101@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <33E606EE.B4A@bellsouth.net> from Keith Leonard at "Aug 4, 97 11:44:30 am"
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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.
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