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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
Message-ID: <1092@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 91 16:47:42 GMT
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A got to thinking more about batched mail last night while
reading the c-news installation documentation, and it occurred to
me that it would be possible to use news and deliver to batch
mail rather painlessly.

    1.  I would have deliver.post look at the final mail address,
        and if the first hop was to a batched site inject it into
        a news group (say to.batchsite) and DROP it from the mail.

    2.  The /usr/lib/mail/sys entry at the receiving site would
        look something like 'tomail:to.batchsite::rmail unbatchmail'

    3.  When the global deliver routine sees the 'To: ununbatchmail'
        it can extract the real 'To: ...' from the header and
        send it on its merry way.

Am I missing something here?  This wouldn't require any new
software and really minimal processing by deliver.

Bill
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