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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: biff
Keywords: can biff see mail sent to a pathname
Message-ID: <394@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 17:40:25 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I know I can send mail(1) to a full path name instead of
>to a login name. How can I get biff(1) to watch for mail sent
>to a pathname instead to user@machine ???

Well, you can modify "sendmail" to notify the "comsat" daemon whenever
it stuffs mail into a file - assuming you can figure out which user to
notify (perhaps the owner of the file?)

You can't do it with the vanilla software, however.