Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!jjr 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 References: <12081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jjr@ut-emx.UUCP (Jeff Rodriguez) Organization: Dept. of E.E.; U. of TX at Austin Lines: 16 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