Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:45:04 PM UTC, original submission:
Hello,
just stumbled on the following issue (nmh-1.3).
Consider the following stretch of the alias file:
[...]
;; commented-alias:someone@some.host \
valid-alias:myfriend@his.host
[...]
The commented line ends with a backslash. Now, if I say:
ali valid-alias
then I find that valid-alias is not expanded (and sending
mail to valid-alias fails).
If I change the alias file to:
[...]
;; commented-alias:someone@some.host \
valid-alias:myfriend@his.host
[...]
or I delete the backslash:
[...]
;; commented-alias:someone@some.host
valid-alias:myfriend@his.host
[...]
then all works as expected.
I.e., for what I seem to understand, the backslash IS
interpreted even if it's on a commented line.
Is this to be expected? I was thinking that a commented
line could contain anything (including a backslash), but
apparently this is not so.
I find this with nmh-1.3 and did not test whether previous
versions display the same behavior.
I'm not sure that this is a bug or is simply my
misunderstanding mh-alias(5)'s contents: apologies if the
second is true.
ciao
gabriele
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