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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Filter question
Keywords: Filter
Message-ID: <1991May26.190505.28465@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 26 May 91 19:05:05 GMT
References: <225835.4481@timbuk.cray.com>
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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anoosh@cray.com (Anoosh Mostaghimi) writes:

>I need a set of filter rule(s) or a clever "execute" to be able 
>to based on a given "To:" field of a mailing list to *bounce* a 
>copy of that email to several other folks and still keep a copy 
>of that email in my /usr/spool/mail.

As much as I love Elm and its buddies, this is not something that is
reasonable for a Mail User Agent, even one with healthy utilities like
Elm's.  Rather, it makes sense for the Mail Transport Agent to handle
stuff like this.  Using either Smail or Sendmail, you can create an
alias for the "To:" field and have it automatically route the mail to
as large a list of people as you wish.
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