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Article #99046expand-mail-aliases doc deficiency
From: megatek!hollen
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 16:35
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 16:35
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If a mail alias and a real user name or more than one user name are
placed on the same line in the "To:" field separated by spaces, not
commas, then they will not be expanded because expand-mail-aliases
looks at all of them as one "user-name". The expansion only works if
the mail aliases are on individual lines or are separated by commas.
Since it is common practice to put several REAL user names on the
same "To:" line separated by spaces, it is intuitive that this could
also be done with a mixture of aliases and real user names. The ideal
fix would be to change the design of expand-mail-aliases to properly
process separation by spaces, but it would be sufficient to merely
document this behaviour instead. It was not until I got into
expand-mail-aliases with the debugger that I was able to find out why
my aliases were not being expanded properly.
--
Dion Hollenbeck (619) 455-5590 x2814
Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA 92121
uunet!megatek!hollen or hollen@megatek.uucp
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