From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 18 23:16:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09683 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09678 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmarco (slip12.zia.ms.it [195.250.8.22]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA03505; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:15:25 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970719082320.007301dc@scotty.masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:23:20 +0200 To: Sri Ramkrishna From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: mail account monitoring Cc: Gary Crutcher , questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9707190040.AA20984@pdx206.intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 17.40 18/07/97 -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: >In message <33CFA785.167EB0E7@scotty.masternet.it> you write: >> ---- begin .forward --- >> hisname >> yourname >> ---- end .forward ---- > >I don't think this is quite right. I believe this will cause a mail >loop. (depending your set up) What you are looking for is something >like this: > >-------- begin .forward ---- >\yourname >--------- end .foward ---- > >I believe that is the correct solution. I am not an unix expert, but I am used it for a few times with my girlfriend email and it hasn't create any trouble... Mail are forwarded to me and her where her is the account in the homedir I create the .forward (with hername, myname). Putting only myname caused sendmail to send only to me.... Boh I'll make some test right now ... I am a bit curios of this thing now .... Thanks again for your reply Regards... Gianmarco "Unix expert since yesterday" Home page: http://www2.masternet.it/~gmarco Server page: http://www2.masternet.it/