Re: forwarding messages

Thanks,

Armando



Andrew Kelly wrote:
> 
> Armando Ferreira wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can i automatically forward all the messages incoming to some users
> > to another mail box? I've a remote idea that this is done with a file
> > .forward in user home directory, but no idea about the content.
> > Anyone can help me?
> 
> The easiest way to do this is to take care of it it
> in the alias file. If mail for USER should be forwarded
> to [email protected], make an entry in the aliase file
> (/etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases generally) that
> looks like
> 
> USER:           [email protected]
> 
> When you've saved and closed the file, call
> sendmail -bi or use the newaliases script.
> 
> Doing your forwarding this way saves a call to
> the MDA.
> 
> The negative is that mail passes through and no local
> copy is left.
> 
> To forward mail and keep a local copy it's best to use
> the .forward file.
> 
> If the contents of .forward were
> [email protected]
> the same would be accomplished as in the first example,
> namely that no local copy of the mail will be kept.
> 
> To keep a local copy, .forward should contain
> 
> \USER,          [email protected]
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
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