[comp.mail.mh] Does Alternate-Mailboxes work?

sharat@CVL.UMD.EDU (11/09/87)

Several people pointed out that Alternate-Mailboxes is the
way to take care of "cc" problems with "repl".  But like
Bill who writes below

  > I have the same problem.  In addition I have other mail aliases in
  > addition to my normal login name (e.g. billr@tekred, games@tekred).
  > I tried using the "Alternate-Mailboxes:" entry in my .mh_profile
  > file [see mh_profile(5)] as it seems to imply that it will handle
  > this, but it doesn't seem to work.  I'd be interested if anyone

I too have the same problem.  So what is the key to getting
Alternate-Mailboxes to work?  Thanks.
	
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chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) (11/11/87)

> I have the same problem.  In addition I have other mail aliases in
> addition to my normal login name (e.g. billr@tekred, games@tekred).
> I tried using the "Alternate-Mailboxes:" entry in my .mh_profile
> file [see mh_profile(5)] as it seems to imply that it will handle
> this, but it doesn't seem to work.  I'd be interested if anyone

Don't forget to add "-nocc me" to the "repl:" line in your .mh_profile
(or, if there isn't a "repl:" line there, put one there that says
"repl: -nocc me").  By default, "me" is just your username on the
current host.  Alternate-mailboxes assigns additional meanings to "me",
but nothing happens unless you use the "-nocc me" flag.


-Brent
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