Mail address lists in Mail.app

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3 total messages Started by Jay Batson Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:50

#1976

Author: Jay Batson
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:50

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I am at a site with two NeXT machines, and a plethora of Sun's/....  As you  
might expect, I manually administer my NeXT separately from what our mainstream  
administrator does.

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?

There is another way to ask this question: if I were an all-NeXT site, where  
would this feature get it's info from?
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Jay Batson
Product Marketing
Cayman Systems, Inc.
jbatson@cayman.com
(617) 494-1999

Re: Mail address lists in Mail.app

#1978

Author: Ed Faught
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

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Ed Faught  WA9WDM  faught@berserk.ssc.gov
 Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

Re: Mail address lists in Mail.app

#2022

Author: Richard Tilley
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:04

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In <1992Dec22.190030.6358@sunova.ssc.gov> faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught) writes:

>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

You might also try:

ln -s /Net/foo/etc/aliases /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases

Is anyone running procmail on a NeXT ??

... Richard <tilley@tilley.cc.umanitoba.ca>

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