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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: How can I bounce my mail from one site to another automatically?
Message-ID: <751@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 18:37:24 GMT
References: <255EF9BF.14590@ateng.com>
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From article <255EF9BF.14590@ateng.com>, by chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg):
> But even with Deliver installed I just use the ".forward" file for simple
> forwarding, since Deliver doesn't know about "user@host" (yet :-)).

Wait a minute - you can get /bin/sh to crunch mail with deliver. It strikes
me that with perl (running in a shell script) and deliver working hand in
hand, you ought to be able to extract the address, parse it, and decide
what to do with it. Now you _CAN_ grok user@host, uucphost!user,
host.subdomain.domain!user, etc. etc. etc.

Come to that, with some REAL creative genius, I could see deliver replacing
smail / sendmail ..... (Now, come on David, stop dreaming :-) )
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