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From: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: how to use mail with preformatted file (including headers)
Keywords: post
Message-ID: <1353@vision.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 90 09:53:07 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.234241.15715@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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In article <1990Dec17.234241.15715@nntp-server.caltech.edu> todd@Quotron.COM (Todd_Booth) writes:
>1) Is there a direct way with mail or sendmail to mail files such as the following?
>
>To: (comment) user
>Subject: subject goes here
>
>msg goes here.

On the systems we have in house (mainly SysV.3 with Lachman IP additions) I
can feed this directly to sendmail, viz -

	/usr/lib/sendmail -v user@site < mail_file

Where "user@site" is the address part of your "To: (comment) user" line, and
"mail_file" is the file you are wanting to send.  Sendmail will automagically
add the RFC822(?) lines such as "From: " and "Date: ".

I believe you can do much the same thing with /bin/rmail, but you won't
get extra headers (such as "From: ") added to the message.

>2) Is there a way to include comments in an alias file?
>.mailrc
>alias todd (todd booth) todd@quotron.com

Comments in an alias file start with a hash (#) in the first column.  Real
names aliases can be specified (at least on the SysV systems I use) like this -

	alias todd 'todd@quotron.com (Todd Booth)'

Chris
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