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NAME
       ali - list mail aliases

SYNOPSIS
       ali [-alias aliasfile] [-list | -nolist] [-user | -nouser] [-version]
            [-help] [aliases ...]

DESCRIPTION
       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.

       The files specified by the profile entry "Aliasfile" and any additional
       alias files given by the -alias aliasfile switch will be read.  Each
       alias is processed as described in mh-alias(5).

FILES
       Alias files are looked up in multiple locations: if the pathname is
       absolute or starts with "." or ".." then it's accessed directly;
       otherwise tilde expansion is done on usernames, then files are searched
       for in the user's Mail directory as specified in their profile.  If not
       found there, the directory "/usr/local/etc/nmh" is checked.

       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path:               To determine the user's nmh directory
       Aliasfile:          For a default alias file

SEE ALSO
       mh-alias(5)

DEFAULTS
       aliasfile           /usr/local/etc/nmh/MailAliases
       -nolist
       -nouser

CONTEXT
       None

BUGS
       The -user option with -nonormalize is not entirely accurate, as it does
       not replace local nicknames for hosts with their official site names.

nmh-1.6                        December 4, 2013                         ALI(1)