ALI(1)

💖 okay bestie, this is the manual for ali, the little tool that lists your nmh mail aliases ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ali — list nmh mail aliases 💌

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

ali [-help] [-version] [-alias aliasfile] [-list | -nolist] [-user |
     -nouser] [aliases ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ali digs through the mail alias files you point it to, looks up each alias you give it, builds a list of addresses for those aliases, and writes that list to standard output. No arguments? It serves up every alias entry 🔥

By default, when an alias expands to multiple addresses, they get separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible 🧁 But if you use -list, and an address expands to multiple addresses, each address gets its own line 🦋

-user flips the whole vibe 🙃 Instead of listing the addresses each alias expands to, ali lists the aliases that expand to each address you gave it. Main character energy 👑

The files named by the profile entry “Aliasfile” get read, plus any extra alias files you add with -alias aliasfile 📂 Every alias gets processed the way mh-alias(5) describes 🧚

• -help and -version — these two show up in the SYNOPSIS, but this page doesn't say anything more about them, so no tea spilled here 🤷
• -alias aliasfile — adds another alias file to read, on top of the one from your profile 📁
• -list — puts each address that an address expands to on its own line 🌈
• -nolist — the default, so commas and as few lines as possible 🍓
• -user — lists the aliases that expand to each given address, instead of the addresses each alias expands to 🔄
• -nouser — the default, so you get the regular alias-to-addresses listing 💜
• aliases ... — the aliases you want looked up. Leave this out and you get all the entries ✨

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📂 FILES 📂

Alias files get looked up in a few different places, so listen up 👀 If the pathname is absolute, or starts with “.” or “..”, ali opens it directly 🎯 Otherwise, tilde expansion happens on usernames, then it searches the user's Mail directory as set in their profile 📬 If it's not there either, it checks the directory “/etc/nmh” 🫶

• $HOME/.mh_profile — your profile, the main character file 🧚

🧚 PROFILE COMPONENTS 🧚

• Path: — figures out your nmh directory 🗂️
• Aliasfile: — sets a default alias file 💖

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• mh-alias(5) 🦋

🎀 DEFAULTS 🎀

• aliasfile — /etc/nmh/MailAliases 🌷
• -nolist 🍓
• -nouser 🌸

🫶 CONTEXT 🫶

None. No context needed, periodt 💅

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That's the whole tea, bestie 💜 This was nmh-1.8, dated 2013-12-05, ALI(1) 🦋✨