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ali



PURPOSE

Lists mail aliases and their addresses.

SYNTAX


       +--- -alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases ----+   +-- -nolist --+
ali ---|                                       |---| +---------+ |--->
       +---------- -alias      file -----------+   +-| -list   |-+
                ^                    |               | -nolist |
                +--------------------+               +---------+

    +-- -nonormalize --+   +-- -nouser --+
>---|      one of      |---|   one of    |-- alias --|
    | +--------------+ |   | +---------+ | ^       |
    +-| -normalize   |-+   +-| -user   |-+ +-------+
      | -nonormalize |       | -nouser |
      +--------------+       +---------+

ali -- -help --|


Note:  This command does not have MBCS support.

DESCRIPTION

The ali command is used to list mail aliases and the addresses that the aliases
represent.  ali is part of the Message Handling (MH) package and can be used
with other MH and AIX commands.

The ali command searches the specified mail alias files for each given alias,
and writes to standard output the address of each alias.  If you specify the
-user flag, ali interprets the alias arguments as actual addresses, searches
the alias files for the addresses, and writes to standard output the aliases
that contain definitions of the addresses.  Thus, if you want to find the
address of an alias, use the default -nouser flag.  If you want to find the
aliases that represent an address, use the -user flag.

FLAGS

-alias file    Specifies that file is a mail alias file to be searched for each
               given alias.  The default alias file is /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases.

-help          Displays help information for the command.





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-list          Displays each address on a separate line.

-nolist        Displays addresses separated by commas on as few lines as
               possible.  This flag is the default.

-nonormalize   Does not attempt to convert local nicknames of hosts to their
               official host names.  This flag is the default.

-normalize     Attempts to convert local nicknames of hosts to their official
               host names.

-nouser        Lists the addresses that the specified aliases represent.  This
               flag is the default.

-user          Lists the aliases that contain the specified addresses.  When
               the -user and -nonormalize flags are used together, the result
               may be a partial list of aliases that contain the specified
               addresses.

FILES

/usr/lib/mh/MailAliases     The default mail alias file.
$HOME/.mh_profile           The MH user profile.
/etc/passwd                 List of users.
/etc/group                  List of groups.

RELATED INFORMATION

See other MH commands:  "comp," "dist," "forw," "repl," "send" and "whom."

See the mh-alias and mh-profile files in AIX Operating System Technical
Reference.

See "Overview of the Message Handling Package" in Managing the AIX Operating
System.




















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