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Making wildcards in Alternate-Mailboxes: work?

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From: Anthony Baxter
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:47
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Does anyone know why:
                                    
Alternate-Mailboxes: anthony,anthony@nella*,anthony@*.monash.edu.au,anthony@*.rdt.monash.edu.au
                                    
matches 'anthony@nella1.cc.monash.edu.au', but not
'anthony@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au', or 'anthony@rdt.monash.edu.au'?
                                    
I really, really dont want to have to list every single machine in the
Alternate-Mailboxes: line, nor do I wish to have to have 'anthony@*' as an
Alternate-Mailbox.
                                    
From the mh-profile man page:
                                    
                     In addition, an asterisk (`*') may appear at
               either  or  both  ends  of the mailbox and host to
               indicate wild-card matching.   (profile,  default:
               your user-id)
                                    
Does this mean that it can only be at either end of the 'mailbox@host', or
at either end of 'mailbox' and 'host'? It would be nice if it was the second,
but in either case this section of the man page could do with a little bit
of clarification.

Thanks,
Anthony
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 anthony baxter                 australian artificial intelligence institute
email : anthony@aaii.oz.au         1 grattan st, carlton, australia 3053
    /\/\||                                 phone : +613 663 7922
  Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, the above is my opinion, not AAII's.
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From: anthony@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (Anthony Baxter)
Subject: Making wildcards in Alternate-Mailboxes: work?
Message-ID: <1993Jan23.064715.14402@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au>
Organization: Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:47:15 GMT
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