Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:59:45 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: mike@puma.chaski.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forward email and maintain a copy? Message-ID: <199810091559.IAA21975@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810091245.HAA17134@puma.chaski.com>
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>From: michael dorin <mike@puma.chaski.com>
>Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:45:00 -0500 (CDT)
>Is it possible to forward email to another address and maintain a local
>copy?
Certainly. Here are excerpts from a coupl eof "man" pages ("forward"
and "vacation", respectively), which show some examples:
...
For example, if a .forward file contained the following lines:
nobody@FreeBSD.org
"|/usr/bin/vacation nobody"
Mail would be forwarded to nobody@FreeBSD.org and to the program
/usr/bin/vacation with the single argument nobody.
...
...
For example, your .forward file might have:
\eric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) and
reply to any messages for ``eric'' or ``allman''.
...
So, if you were to set up a ~/.forward file with
\mike, mike@another.place
in it, a copy of mail addressed to "mike" that arrived at the machine in
question would (as long as it's recognized as being a local address, of
course) would be placed in that machine's local mail repository
(/var/mail/mail, in FreeBSD using /usr/libexec/mail.local as a local
mail delivery agent), and a copy would be forwarded to
"mike@another.place" (which, as written, would bounce since
"another.place" doesn't have any MX records :-}).
For that matter, a similar effect could be obtained by setting up the
mail transport agent to treat "mike" as an alias; in the case of
sendmail, this is done with /etc/aliases. Place
mike: \mike, mike@another.place
in /etc/aliases & run "newaliases"; test via "snedmail -bv mike".
david
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