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How to make a personal mail ALIAS A personal mail alias allows you to define an address that can contain a list of recipients. This is useful when you wish to mail a message to a group of recipients without typing in all the individual addresses. To use MH aliases, add the following line to your '.mh_profile' file: Aliasfile: aliases You should put your aliases in a file named 'aliases' file in your 'Mail' directory. For a full description of the syntax of the 'aliases' file, you can read the manual page by using the 'man' command: athena% man mh-alias or look at the URL http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/mh.htm The general form for the 'aliases' file is: ; Blank lines and lines beginning with a ; are comments ; < myfile (include aliases from "myfile") file: < unix-file (include another alias file) me: jdough (a single user) users: jqdoe, jane, rmsmith (a list of users) Also, forward references are recognized, but backward references aren't. This means that you must make references to a list BEFORE you define the items in it the list, like this: ; joeuser is on Athena, zippy and pegray are not cohorts: pegray, zippy, joeuser pegray: pegray@xx.lcs.mit.edu zippy: zippy@nowhere.berkeley.edu You can verify that you've done everything correctly by using the 'ali' program, which lists the addresses that an alias expands to: athena% ali cohorts pegray@xx.lcs.mit.edu, zippy@nowhere.berkeley.edu, joeuser |
