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Article #565Re: Alias expansion
From: Murray S. Kucherawy
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 23:35
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 23:35
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I sez:
> I have an alias that expands to more than 20 users, but when I try to use
> it, mush says something like "To: line to long - alias not expanded".
> Is this something I can correct with a change in the sources?
Then, argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) sez:
>I'm curious as to what addresses you are using. 20 aliases seems
>awfully short -- unless of course you are using very long addresses.
>You can define HDRSIZ in config.h to be larger. This controls the
>size limits for all mail headers. By default, it's set to BUFSIZ.
>If you're on an older UNIX or xenix box, that might be as little as
>256, so then I could see the problem.
The aliases were of the format "fullname - department <mail_address>";
for example, mine is:
alias murray "Murray S. Kucherawy - Waterloo C&O/CS <mskucherawy@watmath>"
20 or so of them is pretty long, so I guess that's my problem.
============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2A Math (Comp Sci/Comb. & Opt.)
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mskucherawy From: mskucherawy@watmath.waterloo.edu (Murray S. Kucherawy) Subject: Re: Alias expansion Message-ID: <1990Oct30.233525.29850@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada References: <1990Oct24.023606.9441@watmath.waterloo.edu> <144245@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 23:35:25 GMT Lines: 25