$ man aliases [..] Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. [..]
"Loops cannot occur, ..". So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I send a mail to tsawyer, then who should get it? First I thought that meant hfinn should get it, but that clearly does not occur. When I read "loops cannot occur", I get a sense of absolute, iow if I make an alias from tsawyer to hfinn, then mail sent to tsawyer goes to hfinn, no matter what alias I make for hfinn. Otherwise, a loop would occur if I were to alias dstern back to the tsawyer. If this isn't a bug, then the man page is either erroneous, or appeals to a form of logic that I don't understand. All I really want is to mail for root to go to dstern, and for mail to real-root to go to root, not get looped back to dstern. How can I do this? Someone in the know, please lend a clue to the uninitiated. Thanks. --
