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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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