From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!smb
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: CSNet opinions?
Article-I.D.: unc.3660
Posted: Thu Jul  8 15:33:10 1982
Received: Fri Jul  9 02:42:47 1982


One correction to Mark's comments:  aliases are not hard to create in
MMDF; in fact, they're about as easy as in sendmail or delivermail.  The
only thing to watch for is that the file must be topologically sorted --
unlike delivermail, MMDF make one sequential pass through the file, and
hence can't catch back-references.  Mark's example (mail to 'net.general')
will cause problems because '.' is a network delimiter character, and hence
is interpreted to mean user 'net' on host 'general'; also, there is no way
to directly expand an alias to send mail to a program instead of a file.
As Mark noted, it can be done but requires a special userid.