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From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>
To: Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>
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Subject: Re: copy of incoming mail to another account
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So sendmail knows not to recurse on the alias. If it's not there,
the MTA (sendmail, smail, etc...) can hit the spin cycle resolving it.

Hope this helps - Jy@

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Dominik Brettnacher wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, fbsd-isp@ursine.com wrote:
> > You can use the .forward file to copy as well, allowing delivery to
> > both the original addressee as well as the remote address.  Do something
> > like this:
> > 
> > ~localuser/.forward:
> > 
> >     \localuser,remote@domain.com
> 
> Why is the backslash needed?



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