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From: trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: slocal
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Date: 23 Nov 89 04:46:42 GMT
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gfink@clover.ucdavis.edu writes;
>Subject Key-word	| A	"rsh mint command"
>
>For some reason, this action never gets called.  I thought initially
>....

I've spent some time working wth my, and I believe that the problem is
that PATH is not set.  What you need to do is explicitly put pathnames
on all your commands.  In your case, what you want is

subject	keyword	|	A	"/usr/ucb/rsh mint obscure_command with args"

>default -	> ? /usr/spool/mail/gfink
>*	-	|	R	rcvalert
>
>Are they necessary, or are they redundant?

You always want a default rule, so that your mail gets delivered. In
my .maildelivery I have the lines

default	-		|	A	/u/ss/trost/.bin/rcvstore
default -		>	A	/usr/spool/mail/trost

at the bottom.

The rcvalert, on the other hand, is probably bogus --- if I remember
correctly, there is no such program in the distribution, though there
is something called "rcvtty".  It is optional, and is sort of the
equivalent of "biff" (ooh ick).
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