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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tricky mail aliases
Message-ID: <1137@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 13:19:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1137
Posted: Sat Sep 12 13:19:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 08:31:02 EDT
References: <264@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 36
Keywords: saving outgoing mail to particular files

In article <264@mv06.ecf.toronto.edu> drascic@ecf.toronto.edu (SpIKe) writes:
>I would like to organize my correspondance so that all letters to and
>from a particular person would be stored in a single file.

The following solution works under 4.3BSD, using the Berkeley mail
program.

1.   In .mailrc, put the line:

     alias tojoe "|sendtojoe"

2.   Create an executable script called "sendtojoe" that contains:

     #! /bin/sh
     tee -a mbox.joe | mail joe

To avoid an infinite loop, I used "tojoe" as the initial address, and
later "joe" gets used for the actual delivery.  The "-a" option to tee
tells it to append to the argument file.

You might try just using "joe" everywhere, but replacing the "mail" in
the script (which refers to /usr/ucb/mail) with "/bin/mail" to avoid an
infinite loop.  I didn't try this.

A much better solution is to use the MH mail system, and specify 
"Fcc: +inbox" in your template.  Then all mail outgoing is saved in the
"inbox" folder, and you can later refile as necessary with

     refile `pick +inbox -to joe -or -from joe` +joe

which searches for all mail to or from Joe and refiles it in a folder
called "joe".

None of this is guaranteed to work under System V.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi