Aliasing part of a path

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From: Charlie Dennett
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1989 15:47

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I would like to set up a mail alias that resolves to part of a full
bang path.  There are several users of an email system that exists
on another network and system (that shall remain nameless) here at
work.  The beginning part of the address to these users is the same:
host1!host2!host3!user.  What I would like to do is set up an alias
for host1!host2!host3.  For example, let's say X==host1!host2!host3
so I could then send mail addressed as X!user.  I tried this by 
specifying X in sendmail's alias file and using it as part of the
address in a mail message.  The alias was never resolved.  

Is it possible to do what I want?  If it makes a difference, I'm running
a Sun 3/260 under SunOS 4.0.1 with a stock sendmail and sendmail.cf.

Thanks for any help.

Charlie Dennett 


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From: dennett@kodak.UUCP (Charlie Dennett)
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Subject: Aliasing part of a path
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