ALI(1)ALI(1)NAMEali - list mail aliases
SYNOPSISali [-alias aliasfile] [-list | -nolist] [-user | -nouser] [-version]
[-help] [aliases ...]
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 no arguments are given, ali outputs all alias
entries.
By default, when an aliases expands to multiple addresses, the
addresses are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possi‐
ble. If the -list option is specified, then when an address expands to
multiple addresses, each address will appear on a separate line.
The switch -user 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.
The files specified by the profile entry “Aliasfile” and any additional
alias files given by the -alias aliasfile switch will be read. Each
alias is processed as described in mh-alias(5).
FILES
Alias files are looked up in multiple locations: if the pathname is
absolute or starts with “.” or “..” then it's accessed directly; oth‐
erwise tilde expansion is done on usernames, then files are searched
for in the user's Mail directory as specified in their profile. If not
found there, the directory “/usr/local/etc/nmh” is checked.
$HOME/.mh_profile The user's profile.
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
Aliasfile: For a default alias file
SEE ALSOmh-alias(5)DEFAULTS
aliasfile /usr/local/etc/nmh/MailAliases
-nolist
-nouser
CONTEXT
None
BUGS
The -user option with -nonormalize is not entirely accurate, as it does
not replace local nicknames for hosts with their official site names.
nmh-1.6 December 4, 2013 ALI(1)
