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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: slocal question (and some miscellany ..)
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Date: 7 Jan 91 00:50:44 GMT
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A variety of topics (don't you hate it when people do that?).. however,
only one item should cause any followup.  Miscellany first:

1. A month or two ago, someone was complaining because /usr/ucb/vacation
wouldn't work right with slocal.  You can always grab the source to 
vacation from uunet (in something like bsd-sources/usr-bin/vacation) and 
munge it until it works the way you want it to.  I found that the UUCP
maildrop format MH was producing (specifically, the ">" that preceded the 
"From " line) broke vacation .. a minor tweak to make vacation recognize 
">From " as being equivalent to "From " was all it took.  (Well, OK, making 
the Reno-ized source compile on our 4.2-ish systems took a couple of 
minutes, too..)  Presto!  vacation works fine with slocal.

2. I think the behavior of "scan -file" (you can't specify message lists)
is bad, but the only ways I can think of to get around it is to read the
msgbox twice (ick) or trust the .msgbox.map (feh).  If anyone has any other
ideas, please let me know; me, I chopped a piece out of msh, tossed it into 
scan and live with the double-read..

3. Here's the "mhook RTFM" question.  If my .maildelivery says:
	to foo-request | ? "rcvstore +foo"
	to foo | ? "rcvstore +bar"
	default > ? /my/mail/drop
and mail for "foo-request" comes in, slocal tries to place the message in 
+foo (only).  If the first rcvstore failed, you'd think that slocal
would then place the message in +bar (the message delivery failed, and
"?" means to attempt the action if the message remains undelivered).
Instead, in my newly built system:

version: MH 6.7.1 #4[UCI] (hermes.Berkeley.EDU) of Sun Jan 6 12:46:34 PST 1991
options: [BSD42] [BERK] [ATZ] [MHE] [BIND] [RPATHS] [MHRC] [NTOHLSWAP]
         [SBACKUP='".#"'] [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"']
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP]

the message for foo-request lands in my maildrop.  This is non-intuitive.
Is this really the proper behavior?
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