Re: Mail on the RT

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From: Tim Olson
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 23:04

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In article <4232@ut-emx.UUCP> jjr@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff Rodriguez) writes:
| I agree that the mailing system in AIX is atrocious.
| What bothers me quite a bit, in addition to the mail vs. netmail
| problem, is the fact that there is no forwarding capability.
| A ".forward" file is not recognized.  One can forward to another user
| on the same local machine (by putting a forwarding address in the
| /usr/mail/$LOGNAME file), but one cannot forward to another machine.

Smail 2.5 has this feature, along with system-aliases, rerouting, etc. 
The only thing it doesn't have that I wish it had is forwarding to
programs, like sendmail can.
-- 
	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@delirun.amd.com)

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From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Mail on the RT
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Date: 15 Jul 88 23:04:31 GMT
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