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From: goldberg@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Jeffrey Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Chagrin
Message-ID: <1819@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 88 04:52:13 GMT
References: <8801201759.AA02128@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: goldberg@russell.UUCP (Jeffrey Goldberg)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <8801201759.AA02128@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> rayan@ai.toronto.EDU (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>In MH 6.1, it was not possible to do what you want.  Craig Partridge sent
>out mods that added another magic character to those understood in the
>aliases file, which would inhibit expansion of the mail group definition.
>I don't think this found its way into MH6.4 or 6.5 though; I recall having
>to refit it.  So, the short answer is that you probably can't if you have a
>stock MH.  It is *against* RFC822 to hide the internals of a mail group
>that appears in a header.

Could someone post the patch that does this?

I have stock 6.5 MH with a couple of minor fixes to some things
so slocal doesn't crash on a Sun, but otherwise, it's your
standard MH6.5.  And it does not to this trick.
-- 
Jeff Goldberg         Internet: goldberg@russell.stanford.edu