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From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: smail 3.x
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Date: 18 Jan 89 23:39:55 GMT
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Smail 3 currently supports a "smart-user" machine; this is a smart host
used for mail with an unknown recipient (instead of an unknown machine).
This can include aliasing.

>- tee-aliasing:  Many is the time that I've wanted to make an alias for
>  a user that splits mail off to other recipients, but still delivers
>  it to the user named in the mail.  smail 2.5, with its alias grid
>  from which "used" translations are deleted, will not do this.
>  Example:  perhaps I want to make sure I see all mail that goes to
>  "admin", but I hardly ever check it.  At the same time, I still want
>  it to go into the admin bucket.  I would make an alias:

>	admin	mem admin

>  and it would do the right thing.  You say you support sendmail's
>  /usr/lib/aliases; it's been a few years since I did any sendmail
>  stuff, and I've forgotten if that's supported.

The proper way to do this with Smail 2.5 is:

     admin   mem \admin

The proper way to do this with Smail 3.1 is:

     admin:  mem, real-admin

Clarification: I am not one of the Smail 3.1 authors, although I believe
they lurk here. I'm just alpha testing it.