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Useful facilities

From some Unix machines it is possible to check if a destination address within CERN is correct, by typing the command mverify recipient-address from the shell prompt, where recipient-address must be of the form user@host.

The command mverify for CERNVM users must be entered as: mverify userid@crnvmb .

Alias names of your frequent correspondants can be entered in the .mailrc file in your home directory in the format:

alias name address

(e.g. alias dear you@cernapo ). Example of $HOME/.mailrc contents:

[]

=13 $&#m@akeother m@akeother^K_m@akeother^A%~ hd dob@hp9a.gsi.de alias um rz02@mvs.gsi.de alias rb brun@cernvm.cern.ch alias he goofy@v6000a.gsi.de alias body user@cageir5a.bitnet

Aliases may contain lists of addresses but not lists of aliases.



Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995