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From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Smail, Aliases & Programs
Summary: Can smail handle aliases for commands as well as users
Keywords: smail alias
Message-ID: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 16:17:19 GMT
Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
Lines: 41

Smail 2.5, patchlevel 0, running with ELM as a front-end, on Altos Unix (AT&T
derived) Sys V.3.something.

I quote from the manual page for aliases(8):
-->     NAME
-->          aliases - alias file for smail
-->
...[stuff deleted]...
-->
-->          One difference between smail and sendmail is that smail
-->          doesn't handle stuff like mail to files or command
-->          execution.
-->
-->     VERSION
-->          @(#)aliases.8  2.5 (smail) 9/15/87

What I need (!!), before we start running smail instead of a brain-damaged and
hacked-around version of uumail, is a version of smail for Unix System V.3
which *will* allow me to create aliases of the form

	info-server	| /some/program/or/other

i.e. to have mail piped to a specified program.

Before I start (trying...) to hack the source around, has anyone already done
this?  If so, please let me know as I'd really like your modifications!!  :-)

No flames please.  If you lot out there know something that I don't, I really
would like to be told (and "why doesn't the manual page tell me so!!??")...

		Many thanks,
			Chris

PS.	Is smail 2.5 PL0 the most recent version/patch?
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