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From: jms@infmx.UUCP (John Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: pathalias and aliases, do I *need* smail ?
Message-ID: <1961@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 19:58:24 GMT
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Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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I am interested in implementing pathalias without replacing sendmail with
smail or one of its competitors.  I plan to make *that* change once I've had 
a chance to build and road test the new version of smail.

My questions are:
	- Can I do this ?  Reading the various sets of docs, it looks 
	like makedb will create something which is compatible with an 
	aliases dbm file. What sets of options/flags etc do I need to 
	use to bring this about ?

	- Do I need to write some sort of a shell alias to do the lookups
	before handing off to sendmail ?

Thanks for the help.  I'll summarize if there is enough interest.

Jack
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