Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:34:15 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: zach@bane.mi.org (Zach Smith), cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail setting Message-ID: <19990216233415.3617.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199902161641.LAA01425@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:41:32 EST References: <199902161641.LAA01425@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> [snip perl script] > > > Make sure this is executable because it will need to be executed. > > Next, place this line in your .forward file: > > > > | /PATH_TO_THE_SCRIPT/mf.pl > > > > Where "PATH_TO_THE_SCRIPT" is where you put mf.pl > > How about just, > > % more .forward > | tee -a /var/mail/$USER | /usr/sbin/sendmail your_address@other.machine.org > > Or something like that? How about the standard way of doing this, which is *much* simpler than any of these bizarre schemes? For sendmail, the user's ~/.forward file contains the single line: \user, user@other.address For qmail, the user's ~/.qmail file contains (for standard mbox): /home/user/Mailbox user@other.address Or, for qmail using maildirs, it is: /home/user/Maildir/ user@other.address -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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