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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: rcvdist to an alias
Keywords: rcvdist mh alias
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Date: 2 Feb 91 00:05:06 GMT
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In article <5088@atexnet.UUCP> lawrence@epps.kodak.com writes:
>I subscribe to a number of mailing lists, and would like to
>redistribute some of them locally.

The commonly accepted way to do this is to use a system-wide alias for
the inbound list mail, and ask the list manager to send the list mail
directly to that address.

>...my .maildelivery line for the list is:
>To bulletin@osf.org | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvdist osf-dist"

This isn't going to work because rcvdist doesn't read your .mh_profile,
and doesn't know about aliases.

>...I tried adding a '-alias ~/.mail-aliases'
>argument, but it says: "post: missing argument to -alias"

rcvdist is probably interpreting the argument to -alias as an address
to distribute to.  I don't know how to work around this, offhand.
slocal and the rcvmail hooks don't read your .mh_profile so that they
can be used by non-MH users.

>Any suggestions/patches for this?

Since you have the ability to change system-wide aliases, either change
your subscription address with the mailing list, or add a system-wide
alias that lists the other people you want to dist the message to, and
continue to use rcvdist for them.
--
John Romine