Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!greep@su-dsn From: greep%su-dsn@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Calling a user's program to deliver mail Message-ID: <2056@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 02:38:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2056 Posted: Sat Jun 18 02:38:00 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 03:14:44 EDT Lines: 10 MH has had this feature (calling a user's program to deliver mail for him) for quite a while, although it is used mainly to implement the "news" (bboard) feature. (In that case the program is a simple shell file.) One feature I added here is to allow local addresses of the form "user.mailbox", where what comes before the period is a user name and what comes after the period is passed to the user's program as an argument, so that a user can have his mail automatically processed according to what address is used. For example, I might want to have mail to "greep.unix" filed in my "unix" folder, and mail to "greep.header-people" appended to a file (say /dev/null).