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From: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Help with MH-6.7
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.121436.9406@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 12:14:36 GMT
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In article <9103310209.AA06740@egypt.eng.umd.edu>, ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) writes:
|> >   Has anyone compiled MH-6.7 in ultrix4.1
|> >Or updated to Ultrix 4.2? Have the tapes rolled out yet?
|> >     	   ULTRIX Version 4.2 includes Version 6.7.1 of the  Rand MH
|> >     	   mail agent including a new utility, "alex", that provides a 
|> >           simple way for users to manage their mailing list. 
|> 
|> I'm curious whether they used the MH distribution, or hacked it up
|> like they did X11R3 in Ver 3.0.


"They" indeed.  Humph.  No, we didn't `hack it up'--the MH6.7.1
distribution includes some of our fixes: the only significant
difference you'll find between our distribution and John
Romine's is the addition of latent X.400 support, multiple `inc'
sources and alex. (you can include mail from files, pop and
X.400 all at the same time)


|> 
|> Anyone have source for alex?  If not, anyone got a man page?
|> ________________________________________________________________________
|> Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services
|> ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)

The intention was to make alex publicly available, but I don't
know if it has happened (or will happen).

Alex knows about headers and the alias file: so it can extract
addresses from a mail message and add them to the alias file or
print them out in a variety of interesting ways.  Here's
alex -help to whet your appetite (the arguments to `field' specify
a sort-of disjunction, (implies?) -- eg the "-field resent-to/to"
would choose the "resent-to" field if it existed, otherwise the
"to" field; "-field resent-to to" chooses both).


syntax: alex [+folder] [switches]
  switches are:
  -address string
  -alias name
  -[no]compress
  -[no]field name{/name}
  -[no]global
  -name name
  -[no]query
  -[no]replace
  -width n
  -help

version: MH 6.7 #9[UCI] (wessex.rdg.dec.com) of Thu Nov 1 14:39:07 GMT 1990
options: [ISI] [MHRC] [WHATNOW] [MHE] [BSD42] [BERK] [NETWORK] [BIND]
         [RPATHS] [DPOP] [RPOP] [UK] [FOLDPROT='"0700"']
         [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [TYPESIG='void'] [POPSERVICE='"pop"']
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [POP] [X400]
-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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