ALI(1)              RISC/os Reference Manual               ALI(1)



NAME
     ali - list mail aliases

SYNOPSIS
     ali [-alias aliasfile] [-list] [-nolist] [-normalize]
          [-nonormalize] [-user] [-nouser] aliases ...  [-help]

DESCRIPTION
     Ali searches the named mail alias files for each of the
     given aliases.  It creates a list of addresses for those
     aliases, and writes that list on standard output.  If the
     `-list' option is specified, each address appears on a
     separate line; otherwise, the addresses are separated by
     commas and printed on as few lines as possible.

     The `-user' option directs ali to perform its processing in
     an inverted fashion:  instead of listing the addresses that
     each given alias expands to, ali will list the aliases that
     expand to each given address.  If the `-normalize' switch is
     given, ali will try to track down the official hostname of
     the address.

     Each alias is processed as described in mh-alias (5).

FILES
     $HOME/.mh_profile                 The user profile
     /etc/passwd                       List of users
     /etc/group                        List of groups

PROFILE COMPONENTS
     None

SEE ALSO
     mh-alias(5)

DEFAULTS
     `-alias /usr/new/lib/mh/MailAliases'
     `-nolist'
     `-nonormalize'
     `-nouser'

CONTEXT
     None

BUGS
     The `-user' option with `-nonormalize' is not entirely accu-
     rate, as it does not replace local nicknames for hosts with
     their official site names.







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