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- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!nobs.boeing.com!jem7049
- From: jem7049@nobs.boeing.com (Joe Meadows (952-0469))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: VMS Mail - USERNAME Lookup Needed...
- Message-ID: <9208172225.AA09609@atc.boeing.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:25:56 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 19
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- >Useful hack: If you send mail to a forwarded address, and the address for-
- >warded to is invalid, the message shows the forwarding address, not the
- >original one. This allows you to hide useful information in a forwarding
- >address. Hence:
- >
- > MAIL> set forward/user:"j.doe" USE_JANE.OR_JOE.DOE
-
- Usefull hack continuation - the following also works:
-
- MAIL> set forward/user=j.doe """""as J.Doe, try Jane.Doe or John.Doe"""""
- MAIL> send
- To: j.doe
- %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user as J.Doe, try Jane.Doe or John.Doe
-
- Wow. Note that the five quotes on each end are required. Gross eh?
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- Cheers,
- Joe Meadows j.meadows@tardis.boeing.com or meadowsj@boeing.com or ...
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