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From: carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding?
Message-ID: <292@tron.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 01:15:31 GMT
References: <283@unocss.UUCP> <14300@hc.DSPO.GOV>
Reply-To: carson@tron.UMD.EDU (Dana Carson)
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Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD
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In article <14300@hc.DSPO.GOV> whitfill@hc.DSPO.GOV (Jim Whitfill) writes:
>in article <283@unocss.UUCP>, dent@unocss.UUCP (David B. Caplinger) says:
>> 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"?
>We do this all the time. What you need to do is:
>$ DEFINE/SYS/EXE HELP "MANAGER"

Be careful with this, it burned me once.  System manager had a logical
name defined to send SYSTEM to her regular account.  I run the linker to
link a program that has a module of nonportable stuff called system.  I
get error message from linker  can't find module "managersname".  Not
fun and can occur anywhere logicals names would get translated.  It's
better unless you can't to have a disusered account with mail forwarding
set for this sort of thing.

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Dana Carson
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