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- This package contains two things: partial documentation on the NeXT
- Mail table_of_contents file format, and a perl script that you can use
- to have your incoming mail automatically incorporated into various
- mailboxes, depending on the headers of the incoming messages.
-
- To set up the perl script you need to do two things, after making sure
- you have perl installed. You should edit forward.pl and follow the
- directions for setting some user-specific and site-specific variables.
- Then you need to create a file called .forward in your home directory.
- This will tell the mailing system to send incoming mail through the
- perl script. Mine contains the single line:
-
- "| /usr/cap/bin/forward.pl"
-
- You can install forward.pl wherever you want. Make sure your .forward
- file references the location where you actually installed forward.pl.
- Finally, make sure forward.pl is executable. You can do this by typing
-
- chmod +x forward.pl
-
- Send any questions or problems to Chris Paris (cap+@cmu.edu).
-