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Alias bug? Elm 2.3 PL4

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From: F. C. Floberg
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 22:32
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Hi,
	I'm having trouble with elm 2.3 PL4 user aliases.
	From within elm, I can create aliases, list them, lookup a person,
	and delete an alias. However, only the first alias in the list is
	usable. When looking up any other person or trying to send mail to
	them, thier address expands to an empty string. 

	Example:

		The output of the 'l' command in the Alias submenu shows:

		userA-alias = UserA's Fullname = userA@hostA
		userB-alias = UserB's Fullname = userB@hostB
		userC-alias = UserC's Fullname = userC@hostC

		The output of the 'p' command shows:

		Check for person: userA-alias
		Aliased address: userA@hostA (UserA's Fullname)

		Check for person: userB-alias
		Aliased address:

		Check for person: userC-alias
		Aliased address:

	I've studied the source (though I don't follow hashing very well) and
	see no obvious problems. Running elm with debugging turned on shows 
	nothing major (?) except a warning that the system wide alias file
	dosen't exist (as I don't have system wide aliases).

	Elm is running under Interactive Unix System V r3.2.
	Has anyone experienced this problem? Any fixes or suggestions?

	BTW: Essentially the same configuration/compiled in options of Elm
	works fine 'n dandy (tm) under 386BSD 0.1 (?!) A clue maybe?

Thanks,
Fred

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Subject: Alias bug? Elm 2.3 PL4
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