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[ih] Email and address books
On 5/23/2012 5:36 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Do you count CLI MUA's?
"CLI"? command line interface?
> Either mail or Mail had an alias file on Unix is mid '80s. I can't be certain but suspect RAND/MX MAIL did too.
Typically, an alias file is part of the underlying mail infrastructure,
rather than being a personal address book.
I suppose one can count them as a kind of system address book, but we
ought to be explicit about whether they are inside or outside the
definition.
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Dave Crocker
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