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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)4.6 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/26/86
        !             2: .\"
        !             3: .se "Mail to Notesfiles"
        !             4: 
        !             5:        Some mailers  (like 4.2 BSD's \fIsendmail\fP)
        !             6: allow mail to be directed to specific programs.
        !             7: The nfmail program facilitates sending mail to notesfiles.
        !             8: The subject line of the mailed letter is extracted and used as the
        !             9: title of the note.
        !            10: Nfmail extracts the author's name and system
        !            11: from the body of the letter.
        !            12: Subject lines are examined for ``Re:'' prefixes and, if they
        !            13: exist, are used in an attempt to link the letter as a reply to
        !            14: an existing base note.
        !            15: 
        !            16:        To send mail addressed to ``somenotes'' 
        !            17: to the notesfile ``somenotes'' with the 4.1 Bsd or later mail delivery
        !            18: mechanism
        !            19: add the following line to the file /usr/lib/aliases.
        !            20: The second line shows the general format for /usr/lib/aliases entries
        !            21: which feed a notesfile.
        !            22: If the Notesfile utilities are stored in a different directory, the
        !            23: path name should be changed appropriately.
        !            24: 
        !            25: .in +.75i
        !            26: .nf
        !            27: somenotes: ``|/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail somenotes''
        !            28: mailaddress: ``|/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail anotesfile''
        !            29: .fi
        !            30: .in
        !            31: 

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