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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