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Re: How can I bounce my mail from one site to another automatically?

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1989 22:44
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According to dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough):
>According to chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg):
>> But even with Deliver installed I just use the ".forward" file for simple
>> forwarding, since Deliver doesn't know about "user@host" (yet :-)).
>
>Wait a minute - you can get /bin/sh to crunch mail with deliver.

Well, yes.  But then, it's the _delivery_file_ that understands "user@host".
Deliver itself understands "host!user" -- it runs uux -- but it doesn't
understand "user@host".

So, unless you've written a smart post-user delivery file, "echo user@host"
won't work very well in a user delivery file.

>Come to that, with some REAL creative genius, I could see deliver replacing
>smail / sendmail ..... (Now, come on David, stop dreaming :-) )

Really, that wouldn't be too hard.  At least, replacing Smail 2.5 wouldn't
be too hard.  Smail 3 -- well, who'd want to re-implement that? :-)
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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: How can I bounce my mail from one site to another automatically?
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Date: 20 Nov 89 22:44:52 GMT
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