Subject: sendmail aliases --> Pine addressbook

From: [email-masked] (Arthur Gaer)
Date: 24 Apr 1996 20:27:52 GMT

Hi all,

I was hoping I might be saved a lot of effort: I was wondering if
anybody has ever written a program/script to convert sendmail's
/etc/aliases file into Pine addressbook format?

We have a large number of both local group aliases and "odd" email
addresses in our /etc/aliases file that my users would find much more
useful if they could look up in a Pine systemwide global addressbook.
Since both /etc/aliases and Pine's addressbook are ASCII file in
rather simple formats, I would think it wouldn't be too hard to
convert one file to the other--but it would be a heck of a lot easier
if someone else has already done it! :-)

Any help or pointers much appreciated.

Thanks,

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Arthur Gaer
Unix Systems Analyst    [email-masked]    (617) 432-2521
Statistical & Data Analysis Center, Dept. of Biostatistics 
Harvard University, School of Public Health