Re: yarn and distribution lists

Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:44:53 -0700

Steve Wright <saw@exo.com> wrote:
| On Sat, 10 Aug 1996 18:57:43 +0900,
| "tdb@delta1.deltanet.com (Tom D. Baccanti)" wrote:
|
|>Is there a way to use a distribution list with yarn? there was
|>a post a few days ago regarding this but I saw no answers to it.
|
|Warning: I have never actually done this. But here is part of one of my
|many archived yarn msgs. I abreviated this a bit - the original must
|have nearly 15 addresses listed under one alias. I assume this still
|works with newer versions... this was for v .78 or so.
|
|I'm not sure if it matters, but this guy had previous addresses lines
|separated by one blank line before the 'rars=' line.
|
|------------- pasted msg followed -------------------------
|Here's part of my addrbook file [I created the list with qedit, not yarn].
|The alias is rars, and the message will be sent to the list that follows
|the alias.
|
|rars=Abaddon <abaddon@wolf359.kiwi.gen.nz>,\
|Ron Adams <radams@sdt.com>,\
|David Bedford <D.Bedford@redmire.demon.co.uk>,\
|Gordon Bell <gordonb@aisb.ed.ac.uk>

Isn't the format of the addrbook as follows:

alias: email_address

The above, you have

alias= email_address

Are both valid syntax for the address box?

Also, is this possible?

alias1: email1
alias2: email2
alias3: email3
alias4: alias1 alias2 alias3

Thanks,
Gary