[ih] Email and address books

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu May 24 09:42:23 PDT 2012


    > From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>

    >> Either mail or Mail had an alias file on Unix is mid '80s.

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

I think he's talking about something like the 'alias' lines in ~/.mailrc
(which applies only to one's own outgoing email), not the system alias
file (which applies to incoming mail).

	Noel



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