Ali searches the named mail alias files for each of the given
aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases,
and writes that list on standard output. If no arguments are given,
ali outputs all alias entries.
By default, when an aliases expands to multiple addresses, the addresses
are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible. If the
`-list' option is specified, then when an address expands to multiple
addresses, each address will appear on a separate line.
The switch `-user' directs ali to perform its processing in
an inverted fashion: instead of listing the addresses that each given
alias expands to, ali will list the aliases that expand to each
given address. If the `-normalize' switch is given, ali will
try to track down the official hostname of the address.
The files specified by the profile entry \*(lqAliasfile:\*(rq and any
additional alias files given by the `-alias aliasfile' switch will be
read. Each alias is processed as described in mh-alias\0(5).
^$HOME/.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
^/etc/passwd~^List of users
^/etc/group~^List of groups
^Path:~^To determine the user's nmh directory
^Aliasfile:~^For a default alias file
mh-alias(5)
`-alias /etc/nmh/MailAliases'
`-nolist'
`-nonormalize'
`-nouser'
None
The `-user' option with `-nonormalize' is not entirely accurate, as it
does not replace local nicknames for hosts with their official site names.