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Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/notes/doc/4.6, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .se "Mail to Notesfiles"
        !             2: 
        !             3:        Some mailers  (like 4.2 BSD's \fIsendmail\fP)
        !             4: allow mail to be directed to specific programs.
        !             5: The nfmail program facilitates sending mail to notesfiles.
        !             6: The subject line of the mailed letter is extracted and used as the
        !             7: title of the note.
        !             8: Nfmail extracts the author's name and system
        !             9: from the body of the letter.
        !            10: Subject lines are examined for ``Re:'' prefixes and, if they
        !            11: exist, are used in an attempt to link the letter as a reply to
        !            12: an existing base note.
        !            13: 
        !            14:        To send mail addressed to ``somenotes'' 
        !            15: to the notesfile ``somenotes'' with the 4.1 Bsd /etc/delivermail
        !            16: add the following line to the file /usr/lib/aliases.
        !            17: The second line shows the general format for /usr/lib/aliases entries
        !            18: which feed a notesfile.
        !            19: If the Notesfile utilities are stored in a different directory, the
        !            20: path name should be changed appropriately.
        !            21: 
        !            22: .in +.75i
        !            23: .nf
        !            24: somenotes: ``|/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail somenotes''
        !            25: mailaddress: ``|/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail anotesfile''
        !            26: .fi
        !            27: .in
        !            28: 

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