Change the characteristics of an alias.

Syntax

ALIAS SET alias-name

Qualifiers	Defaults
/BLOCK_RECEIPTS	/BLOCK_RECEIPTS
/CONFIRM	/NOCONFIRM
/EXPAND	/NOEXPAND
/FAX_ADDRESS	/NOFAX_ADDRESS
/LOG	/NOLOG
/MAIL_ADDRESS	/MAIL_ADDRESS
/NOWILD	None
/PASS_RECEIPTS	/BLOCK_RECEIPTS
/PRIVATE	/PRIVATE
/PUBLIC	/PRIVATE

Parameters

alias-name

Name of the alias for which to affect settings. Wild cards are permitted in the alias name.

Description

The ALIAS SET command allows the characteristics of one or more aliases to be changed. For instance, to mark as public all of your aliases whose names end with -list, use the command

EMAIL> ALIAS SET/PUBLIC *-LIST

The settings will be made to aliases in the currently open alias database. If no database is open, then your personal alias database will first be opened.

When an alias with an associated mailing list distribution file is marked /PUBLIC or /NOPRIVATE, the distribution file will have its protection mask modified to be world readable.

Qualifiers

/BLOCK_RECEIPTS (default)

/NOBLOCK_RECEIPTS

/BLOCK_RECEIPTS disables the passage of requests for delivery and read receipts through to recipients as the alias is expanded. Requests for such receipts are honored at the time the alias expands; in effect the alias is treated as the message destination. The /BLOCK_RECEIPTS and /NOPASS_RECEIPTS qualifiers are synonyms; likewise for the /NOBLOCK_RECEIPTS and /PASS_RECEIPTS qualifiers.

/CONFIRM

/NOCONFIRM (default)

When /CONFIRM is specified, you will be prompted to confirm the modification of each alias.

/EXPAND

/NOEXPAND (default)

/NOEXPAND inhibits the expansion of the alias into its component addresses; /EXPAND permits the alias to be replaced with its translation value in the message header. See the description of the /PUBLIC and /PRIVATE attributes for details on the possible appearance of the alias in the message header.

/FAX_ADDRESS

/NOFAX_ADDRESS (default)

Mark the alias translation value as being a PMDF-FAX address.

/LOG

/NOLOG (default)

Report the number of aliases modified.

/MAIL_ADDRESS (default)

/NOMAIL_ADDRESS

Mark the alias translation value as being an e-mail address.

/PASS_RECEIPTS

/NOPASS_RECEIPTS (default)

/PASS_RECEIPTS enables the passage of requests for delivery and read receipts through to all recipients as the alias is expanded. Note that allowing the passage of such a request to a large distribution list may result in a lot of return mail. Consequently, receipts should never be allowed to pass through to distribution lists. The /PASS_RECEIPTS and /NOBLOCK_RECEIPTS qualifiers are synonyms; likewise for the /NOPASS_RECEIPTS and /BLOCK_RECEIPTS qualifiers.

/PRIVATE (default)

/NOPRIVATE

Mark the alias as being private. Other users will not be able to use the alias. If the alias appears in outgoing mail (and is not expanded into its component addresses) it will appear as an unexpanded RFC 822 group address: alias: ;. When the alias is marked /EXPAND, the /PRIVATE and /NOPRIVATE qualifiers have no effect. The /PRIVATE and /NOPUBLIC qualifiers are synonyms; likewise for the /NOPRIVATE and /PUBLIC qualifiers.

/PUBLIC

/NOPUBLIC (default)

Mark the alias as being publicly accessible. Other users may reference the alias by sending mail to an address of the form user+alias@local-host. When the alias is used in outgoing mail and is not expanded into component addresses (/NOEXPAND), it will appear in the message in the form user+alias@local-host. When the alias is marked /EXPAND, the /PUBLIC and /NOPUBLIC qualifiers have no effect. The /PUBLIC and /NOPRIVATE qualifiers are synonyms; likewise for the /NO-PUBLIC and /PRIVATE qualifiers.

/NOWILD

Treat the wild card characters * and % as being literal asterisks and percent signs. If the alias name contains either of these two characters and /NOWILD is not specified, then an error will be signalled and no entry in the database made.

Examples

In the following example all aliases whose name ends with "-LIST" are marked as public, non-expandable, and with receipts blocked:

EMAIL> ALIAS SET/PUBLIC/NOEXPAND/BLOCK_RECEIPTS *-LIST %EMAIL-I-DBMATCHES, 11 matching entries modified EMAIL>