Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!amdcad!tim From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Mail on the RT Message-ID: <22379@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 23:04:31 GMT References: <12081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4232@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@delirun.amd.com (Tim Olson) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices Lines: 15 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: 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)