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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs
Message-ID: <2545C1E8.6969@ateng.com>
Date: 25 Oct 89 14:23:34 GMT
References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> <1549.254492d7@mccall.uucp>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to tp@mccall.uucp:
>> 	info-server	| /some/program/or/other
>
>[...] what I did (using an earlier version of smail that didn't have
>aliases at all) was rather than renaming smail to rmail and handing it the
>mail directly, I wrote a shell script named rmail. It looked at its
>parameter and checked it against an alias list.

If anyone else is thinking of doing such a thing, be sure that the script
can handle _multiple_ parameters.  To support this necessary feature, the
script will have to copy the message to a temporary file, since it may be
fed to several different programs.

That's what Deliver does.  (You saw it coming, didn't you?)
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