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From: hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Is SysVr4 mail usable?
Summary: yes, it is usable
Keywords: mail, SVr4
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.022340.15573@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 02:23:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.195918.23496@chinet.chi.il.us>
Sender: hansen@cbnewsk.att.com (tony.l.hansen)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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< I will soon be upgrading a group of SysVr3 machines to SysVr4. Should I
< consider using the native mailer instead of replacing it with Smail3
< which I am using now?  I need good alias, forwarding and list file
< handling.  It looks like the SysVr4 mailer will do some of this, but
< can it match Smail at recursing through the aliases, forwards and lists
< until everything is resolved and the duplicates discarded?

I believe that the SVr4 mail system can do everything that smail can do.

					Tony Hansen
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