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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Still trying to get smart routing working.
Summary: .forwards are still needed for vacation to work (or are they?)
Message-ID: <3656@phri.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 16:32:06 GMT
References: <412@execu.UUCP> <7094@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <412@avsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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[Regarding the selection of newsgroups, I consider it fundamentally wrong
to crosspost to foo.misc as well as foo.x, foo.y, and foo.z.  I've directed
followups to comp.mail.sendmail since that's the most appropriate group.]

In article <412@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
> Always use /usr/lib/aliases, and concentrate all your network problems into
> one place. .forward is an obsolete mechanism from a decade ago.

	I'd almost agree with that, except that it would be nice if people
could set up things like vacation on their own (do you, as postmaster,
really want to change /usr/lib/aliases every time somebody goes on vacation
or comes back?)  Of course, the alternative is to have sendmail (or
whatever MTA you use) deal with vacation processing itself.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"