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In article <REID.93Jan27012619@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu> reid@dsm.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
>Just wondering:  I foward my mail from machine A to machine B - Then I
>foward my mail frm machine B to machine A - what happens when someone
>sends mail to either account?
>

Well, if you do this at 3:00 in the morning, you have a very angry system
administrator in your office at 8:01 (give him time to get into his office and
see his machines having problems).  We had a student here in our department
put *five* local hosts into his .forward file.  They merrily sent the message
to each of the five machine, which in turn sent to each of the five machine,
which.......  Needless to say, I was not a happy camper, as it was my first
day on the job and I didn't have the root passwords yet.  I had to find one
of the other people who had the password, get the password, and fix the problem.

At least, on the good side, I got the passwords that someone had forgotten to
tell me   ;)

Steve
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