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In article <385@txsil.lonestar.org> steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) writes:
>On a system that uses MMDF, how does a user arrange to have his mail
>forwarded to another account (possibly on another machine)?  Back in
>the Good Old Days, we had a 4.2BSD system with sendmail, and a .forward
>file in a user's home directory served this purpose admirably.  As far
>as I can figure out, MMDF requires that a global system alias file be
>modified *each* time *any* user wants to start or stop forwarding email.
>Is this correct?  (I hope not, because if so, the local VMS system
>admininstrator wins a brownie point in favor of his otherwise ugly
>email software. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Not too hard .. and theres a few ways of doing it.

You can put an alias in the global alias file like

	user:	:include:/users/home/path/.forward

To enable a .forward file for the user.

With update 43 a compile-time feature (DOTFORWARD) was added which
does the .forward thing directly.  But apparently there's a security
bug in it (hafta check closer on it..)

Finally, at the cost of a bit of header munging, placing the following
like in the users .maildelivery file will forward mail

* - | A /wherever/the/resend/program/is/resend some-user@some-domain

The header munging is to add a couple lines listing Resent-To: and
Resent-From: information.  I plan on adding a flag to resend to not
add those lines ...



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