Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs
Keywords: smail alias
Message-ID: <974@becker.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 08:46:42 GMT
References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 23

In article <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes:
|[...]
|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!!  :-)

	There is indeed a patch to smail 2.5 which permits
	this.  I'll try to persuade the author to allow it
	to be posted here.  I'm using it currently...

Cheers,
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