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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs
Keywords: smail alias
Message-ID: <2544A794.451@ateng.com>
Date: 24 Oct 89 18:18:58 GMT
References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies):
>Smail 2.5, patchlevel 0, running with ELM as a front-end, on Altos Unix
>(AT&T derived) Sys V.3.something.
>
>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.

Get the Deliver program.  Version 2.0 recently appeared in comp.sources.unix.
I wrote it to provide exactly the facility you want in the environment you
have.  But when you install Deliver you get lots more than just pipes.
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