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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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