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Article #5356Re: Another EZ Question
From: Dieter Woerz
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 03:10
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 03:10
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In article <280@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
says something about forwarding mail to another account with sendmail.
Dave> Alternatively, you can do something creative like have a copy of it stay
Dave> there at Rutgers, while another copy is shot off to work:
Dave>
Dave> % cat .forward
Dave> \deen,deen@work.address
Dave>
Dave> Note the '\' at the beginning: this is essential because it tells the
Dave> mail system that you want it to "force" delivery to 'deen' -- without
Dave> it the mail would simply have another copy sent off to your work address
Dave> and loop...which would get you a lot of mail!!
Dave, as far as I know, sendmail does recognize such a loop and
delivers the mail without the backslash to both recipients. I think
it checks the .forward file only once, to prevent such nasty loops.
Dave> ...
Dieter Woerz
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!unido!isaak!leonardo!woerz From: woerz%leonardo@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Another EZ Question Summary: Sendmail doesn't do delivery loops Message-ID: <2289@isaak.isa.de> Date: 6 Jan 90 03:10:32 GMT References: <Jan.3.22.17.01.1990.12281@topaz.rutgers.edu> <280@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Sender: news@isaak.isa.de Organization: ISA GmbH, Stuttgart, West-Germany Lines: 24