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[ih] Email and address books
- Subject: [ih] Email and address books
- From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 12:42:23 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
>> Either mail or Mail had an alias file on Unix is mid '80s.
> Typically, an alias file is part of the underlying mail infrastructure,
> rather than being a personal address book.
I think he's talking about something like the 'alias' lines in ~/.mailrc
(which applies only to one's own outgoing email), not the system alias
file (which applies to incoming mail).
Noel