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Article #5351Re: Another EZ Question
From: Dave Taylor
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 08:55
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 08:55
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What you really want to do is not to have Elm forward your mail at all,
but rather let the lower level mail transport agent do the work. I
assume that your site is running "sendmail" (*) in which case you can
most simply create a file in your home directory called ".forward" with
your email address contained therein:
% cat .forward
deen@work.address
Alternatively, you can do something creative like have a copy of it stay
there at Rutgers, while another copy is shot off to work:
% cat .forward
\deen,deen@work.address
Note the '\' at the beginning: this is essential because it tells the
mail system that you want it to "force" delivery to 'deen' -- without
it the mail would simply have another copy sent off to your work address
and loop...which would get you a lot of mail!!
If you're NOT running sendmail, then with luck you're running a System
V based "rmail" program, in which case you can do something like the
following (make sure your mailbox is empty first!):
% echo "Forward to deen@work.address" >! /usr/mail/deen
which should do the trick.
Good luck with this all.
-- Dave Taylor
(*) to find out if you're running sendmail, type "mailq" and see what
happens: if it can find the command, then you're probably in luck.
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!limbo!taylor From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Another EZ Question Message-ID: <280@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 4 Jan 90 08:55:16 GMT References: <Jan.3.22.17.01.1990.12281@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +011 (415) 966-1151 Lines: 39