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- From: scott@pascal.geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson)
- Subject: Re: Help with aliases file in SMAIL
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:08:55 GMT
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- I'm pretty sure you cannot do this in the "aliases" file, but I
- think you can accomplish your goal by an appropriate entry in the
- "paths" file. Essentially you will be diverting *all* traffic
- formerly bound for the defunct machine so that it will be delivered
- to defunct-machine-user-name on your machine. This may not be quite
- right, but perhaps a combination of this behavior with entries in the
- "aliases" file will serve. I would make an entry in "paths" (inserted
- or sorted so that the file remains in sorted order since "smail" expects
- to be able to do a binary search on it) something like this:
- defunct<TAB>%s
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