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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: More thoughts on mail relays
Message-ID: <326@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:04:02 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.326
Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:04:02 1985
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Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
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In article <912@plus5.UUCP> hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) writes:
> ... (((Replying to JER, he makes the same point I made about
> disabiguating ! and @ addresses, then continues with a reply
> to another point))) ...
>You raise a very good point.  I thought about it, and came up with the
>following benefits of using sendmail:
>	user aliases (not everybody can afford the 3-4 Mbytes occupied
>	by all the MH software), mail to files, mail to pipes, decent
>	forwarding capabilities, and local "services" (sending mail to
>	the lineprinter, for example).
>Granted, much of this *could* be done by dedicated, smaller programs.  I
>haven't seen them yet. I have heard rumors about them, but that's all.

If you have heard rumors about them, I'd love to hear more.  I still
think that the domain server is the right place to do this, since it
is just a generalization of routing mail.  How easy would it be to
add this kind of thing to smail?
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA