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.TH MH-ALIAS %manext5% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
.SH NAME
.B nmh
command
.SH DESCRIPTION
-This describes both
+This describes
.B nmh
-personal alias files and
-the global alias file for
-.B nmh
-mail delivery, the file
-.PP
-.RS 5
-%etcdir%/MailAliases
-.RE
-.PP
+personal alias files.
It does
.B not
describe aliases files used by the message transport system.
not usually output, rather the address\-group that the alias maps to is
output instead. If \*(lqalias\*(rq is terminated with a `;' instead of
a `:', then both the \*(lqalias\*(rq and the address are output in the
-correct format. (This makes replies possible since
+correct format. (This makes replies possible since personal
.B nmh
-aliases
-and personal aliases are unknown to the mail transport system.)
+aliases are unknown to the mail transport system.)
.RE
.PP
Since the alias file is read line by line, forward references work, but
.PP
.RS 5
.nf
-<%etcdir%/BBoardAliases
+<%etcdir%/MoreAliases
sgroup: fred, fear, freida
b-people: Blind List: bill, betty;
fred: frated@UCI
.PP
The first line says that more aliases should immediately be read from
the file
-.IR %etcdir%/BBoardAliases .
+.IR %etcdir%/MoreAliases .
Following this, \*(lqfred\*(rq
is defined as an alias for \*(lqfrated@UCI\*(rq, and \*(lqsgroup\*(rq
is defined as an alias for the three names \*(lqfrated@UCI\*(rq,
The key thing to understand about aliasing in
.B nmh
is that aliases in
-/B nmh
-lias files are expanded into the headers of messages posted.
+.B nmh
+alias files are expanded into the headers of messages posted.
This aliasing occurs first, at posting time, without the knowledge of the
message transport system. In contrast, once the message transport system
is given a message to deliver to a list of addresses, for each address
Aliasfile: aliases
.\" ali: \-alias aliases
.\" send: \-alias aliases
-.\" whom: \-alias aliases
.fi
.RE
.PP
.RE
.SH FILES
-.fc ^ ~
-.nf
-.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName 'u
-^%etcdir%/MailAliases~^global nmh alias file
-.fi
+None
.SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
.fc ^ ~
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-ali(1), send(1), whom(1), group(5), passwd(5), conflict(8), post(8)
+ali(1), send(1), group(5), passwd(5), conflict(8), post(8)
.SH CONTEXT
None