From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 20 07:13:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07170 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07140 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA23796; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 02:23:48 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199801201523.CAA23796@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: But what if the alias name is already in use ? Re: mail To: panda@peace.com.my (chas) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 02:23:48 +1100 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980120224703.009171b0@peace.com.my> from "chas" at Jan 20, 98 10:40:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk +-----[ chas ]------------------------------ | | So, given that an account already exists info@ourdomain.com and | that it is not an alias, how can you then arrange for mail | arriving to be forwarded to another account as well as being | available for pick up from info@ourdomain.com ? | put a filed called '.forward' into the home directory with the email addresses of the people who also wish to receive email as well as the info account.... so you'd have.. \info manager1 manager2@offsite.domain.com the \ means do not follow .forwards, so it effectively re-delivers it. -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |