[ih] Email and address books

Dave Crocker dhc2 at dcrocker.net
Thu May 24 06:17:25 PDT 2012



On 5/23/2012 5:36 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Do you count CLI MUA's?

"CLI"?  command line interface?


> Either mail or Mail had an alias file on Unix is mid '80s. I can't be certain but suspect RAND/MX MAIL did too.

Typically, an alias file is part of the underlying mail infrastructure, 
rather than being a personal address book.

I suppose one can count them as a kind of system address book, but we 
ought to be explicit about whether they are inside or outside the 
definition.

d/

d/
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  Dave Crocker
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