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Article #1978Re: Mail address lists in Mail.app
From: Ed Faught
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:00
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:00
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In article <12260@cayman.COM> jbatson@cayman.com (Jay Batson) writes: >I would like the "Addresses" panel within Mail.app to contain the contents of >our corporate smtp "aliases" file. Since we don't run Netinfo for any other >systems, I have no idea where Mail.app get's its information. I can enter all >the names manually, but our organization is large enough that a) this is >sufficiently time consuming that it isn't worth the effort, and b) the list >changes in some way virtually daily, and I'd spend forever making manual >changes. > >So I need it done in some automated way. My NeXT machine can see the corporate >aliases file (via NFS) but is there an automated way to get the information re: >user names, groups, etc. in to the place where Addresses in the Mail.app are >stored? I can't vouch for it's usefulness, but this is what I use: #! /bin/sh cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People ypcat -k aliases | grep , | sort | sed "s/ /:/g" >> aliases -- Ed Faught WA9WDM faught@berserk.ssc.gov Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!sunova!usenet From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught) Subject: Re: Mail address lists in Mail.app Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190030.6358@sunova.ssc.gov> Sender: usenet@sunova.ssc.gov (News Admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: berserk.ssc.gov Reply-To: faught@berserk.ssc.gov Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory References: <12260@cayman.COM> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:00:30 GMT Lines: 25