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- From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught)
- Subject: Re: Mail address lists in Mail.app
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190030.6358@sunova.ssc.gov>
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- Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
- References: <12260@cayman.COM>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:00:30 GMT
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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
-
- --
- Ed Faught WA9WDM faught@berserk.ssc.gov
- Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
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