Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!hc!whitfill
From: whitfill@hc.DSPO.GOV (Jim Whitfill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding?
Message-ID: <14300@hc.DSPO.GOV>
Date: 22 May 88 15:56:37 GMT
References: <283@unocss.UUCP>
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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in article <283@unocss.UUCP>, dent@unocss.UUCP (David B. Caplinger) says:
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if the following is possible?
> 
> Without actually setting up an account called (for example) "HELP",
> is it possible to set up some kind of logical or something to have any
> incoming mail addressed to "HELP" (even from bitnet, arpanet, etc)
> to be forwarded to a specific person, (for example) "MANAGER"?
> 
> It /seems/ like a usefull thing to do, but I have no idea if it can even
> be done.  Or should I wait for VMS MAIL 5.0 ?
>
We do this all the time. What you need to do is:

$ DEFINE/SYS/EXE HELP "MANAGER"

Where MANAGER is the name of an account. VMSmail tries to translate
the recipient field as a logical before it looks for an account.

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