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From: BARBE@sdr.slb.COM ("Claude Barbe - SDR -  431 5524", 203)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Logical Mail Forwarding
Message-ID: <8805281715.AA10592@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 26 May 88 18:09:00 GMT
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Read VAX/VMS Mail Utility Reference Manual VAX/VMS Version 4.0 AA-Z421A-TE
page MAIL-71

	$ SET PROCESS/PRIVILEGE=SYSNAM
	$ MAIL
	MAIL> SET FORWARD manager /USER=help


Verify what the current recipient of mail addressed to HELP is with:

	$ SET PROCESS/PRIVILEGE=SYSNAM
	$ MAIL
	MAIL> SHOW FORWARD /USER=help

0) I use it all the time

1) HELP does not require a SYSUAF account

2) It works as long as the official MAIL.EXE is the only agent depositing
   new mail on your system. It is then OK for all sources such as DDXF, PSI
   and PMDF which use the foreign mail interface to MAIL.EXE

3) It can be altered at any time on a VAXCluster
   in one command

4) It is as powerful as a system wide /EXEC logical name without the risk
   of bothering people who designate files by only their name without the
   file type (try $ DEFINE/SYS/EXEC HELP MANAGER and then $ PASCAL HELP...)
   if their file happens to match a system wide logical name.
   System wide logical names should always be chosen in such a way as not
   to collide with possible user file names, this is why they are SYS$xxx
   or PMDF_xxx.

Claude Barbe - Schlumberger-Doll Research - Ridgefield, CT