Re: Mail Forwarding Problem

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From: Gordon Dewis
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:20

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sp@questor.org (Steve Pershing) writes:

> I am currently using DOS waffle.  Incoming mail for this particular
> machine is addressed as follows:
> 
> 	user@machine.questor.org
> 
> or
> 
> 	user@machine.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
> 
> I am attempting to forward the mail to a compuserve address, 
> e.g:   76543.1234@compuserve.com
> 
> My aliases file entry has simply:
> 
> 	user@machine.questor.org           76543.1234@compuserve.com
> 	user@machine.questor.wimsey.bc.ca  76543.1234@compuserve.com
> 
> Try as I might, it will not work.  There is no longer an entry for the

In your aliases file you should have:

user    76543.1234@compuserve.com

To handle the non-existent machine problem, set up your Waffle so that 
one alias for it is machine.questor.wimsey.bc.ca.  Simply reference it in 
the aliases: line.

  --G

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From: gordon@pinetree.org (Gordon Dewis)
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Subject: Re: Mail Forwarding Problem
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 13:20:18 EST
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