Added note that suffixes were removed from filenames of temporary files.

[nmh] / man / ali.man

diff --git a/man/ali.man b/man/ali.man
index 1b54e0f12a6771f965dd3295d7eaa47785da899a..1b9d670a3aa69e246eb508b76e920309ccb26483 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ali.man
+++ b/man/ali.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ALI %manext1% "January 1, 2001" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH ALI %manext1% "December 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"

 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"


@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ ali \- list mail aliases
 .RB [ \-alias
 .IR aliasfile ]
 .RB [ \-list " | " \-nolist ]
 .RB [ \-alias
 .IR aliasfile ]
 .RB [ \-list " | " \-nolist ]

-.RB [ \-normalize " | " \-nonormalize ]

 .RB [ \-user " | " \-nouser ]
 .RB [ \-version ]
 .RB [ \-help ] 
 .RB [ \-user " | " \-nouser ]
 .RB [ \-version ]
 .RB [ \-help ] 


@@ -42,12 +41,7 @@ an inverted fashion: instead of listing the addresses that each given
 alias expands to,
 .B ali
 will list the aliases that expand to each
 alias expands to,
 .B ali
 will list the aliases that expand to each

-given address.  If the
-.B \-normalize
-switch is given,
-.B ali
-will
-try to track down the official hostname of the address.
+given address.

 .PP
 The files specified by the profile entry
 .RI \*(lq Aliasfile \*(rq
 .PP
 The files specified by the profile entry
 .RI \*(lq Aliasfile \*(rq


@@ -59,6 +53,18 @@ switch will be read.  Each
 is processed as described in
 .IR mh\-alias (5).
 .SH FILES
 is processed as described in
 .IR mh\-alias (5).
 .SH FILES

+Alias files are looked up in multiple locations: if the pathname is
+absolute or starts with
+.RI \*(lq . \*(rq
+or
+.RI \*(lq .. \*(rq
+then it's accessed directly; otherwise tilde expansion is done on
+usernames, then files are searched for in the user's
+.I Mail
+directory as specified in their profile.  If not found there, the directory
+.RI \*(lq %etcdir% \*(rq
+is checked.
+.PP

 .TP 20
 $HOME/.mh\-profile
 The user's profile.
 .TP 20
 $HOME/.mh\-profile
 The user's profile.


@@ -82,8 +88,6 @@ aliasfile
 .TP
 \-nolist
 .TP
 .TP
 \-nolist
 .TP

-\-nonormalize
-.TP

 \-nouser
 .PD
 .SH CONTEXT
 \-nouser
 .PD
 .SH CONTEXT