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Re: Another EZ Question

#5351
From: Dave Taylor
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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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Another EZ Question
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Date: 4 Jan 90 08:55:16 GMT
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