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From: jjr@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Mail on the RT
Message-ID: <4232@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 17:43:03 GMT
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Reply-To: jjr@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff Rodriguez)
Organization: Dept. of E.E.; U. of TX at Austin
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Matt Austern (matt@violet.berkeley.edu) writes:
>AIX 2.1.2 has no sendmail command; instead, it has mail (which can be used
>*only* to send a message to a user on the local machine), and netmail
>(which can be used *only* to send a message to a user on a remote machine

The netmail command can be used to send a message to the local machine
if the recipient's full address is given (i.e., "netmail joe@thisrt").

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.

			Jeff Rodriguez
			jjr@emx.utexas.edu