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- Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.mail.misc
- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: Alias Lister For Users
- Message-ID: <1990Nov18.020554.17860@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 90 02:05:54 GMT
-
- In article <1990Nov17.023351.16824@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- >
- >At work we live and die by email, and we've got mail aliases coming
- >out our ears. I get regular requests to know who's on a given alias.
- >Our user community is pretty computer-naive, so telling them to grep
- >the alias file isn't real useful. In a flash of inspiration, I threw
- >together the following shell script. Install it as 'printalias' (or
- >the name of your choice) on a sendmail-based system, and it'll give
- >you nice listings of who is in any given alias. It's slow, but what
- >the hell. Check the values of ALIASES and SENDMAIL to be sure they're
- >right for your installation. Enjoy.
- >
- You might want to check out the IDA sendmail kit, available at several
- ftp sites (uxc.cso.uiuc.edu for example). It includes a neat little
- command 'dbm' which can be used for the same purpose. You would
- just say: dbm fetch aliasname alias-file-name
- and get your listing. It's fast, but what the hell.
-
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- Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
- Northern Illinois Univ.
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