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2 total messages Started by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:59
Syntax for .forward fils
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Author: Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:59
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Can someone point me to documentation of the .forward file for rerouting mail?   
I've searched (with Digital Librarian) through the man pages, NeXT docs, FAQs  
and NeXTAnswers and find only one reference, in an example in the vacation man  
page.  I'd like to see a precise statement of what .forward can do, and the  
correct syntax.

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Re: Syntax for .forward fils
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Author: Laurent Amon
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:39
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In article <1992Jul27.205930.27509@terminator.cc.umich.edu>  
jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason) writes:
>  
>  Can someone point me to documentation of the .forward file for rerouting  
mail?   
>  I've searched (with Digital Librarian) through the man pages, NeXT docs,  
FAQs  
>  and NeXTAnswers and find only one reference, in an example in the vacation  
man  
>  page.  I'd like to see a precise statement of what .forward can do, and the  
>  correct syntax.
>  
Simple. The syntax is one address per line, or separated by commas, I think.  
The format is the same as for aliases. See the aliases man page from Sun. 
When you receive a mail, it is send to each email address specified. If the 
line begins with '|', it is instead piped to the named program.

Here is an example: 3 lines. The first sends a copy of the mail to 
another address, the second processes another copy and the third is a call 
to vacation.

foo@bar.edu
"| ~/bin/procmail -d "
\me, "|/usr/ucb/vacation me"

Once again, look on a Sun (why do they have better man pages :-().

Hope it helps,

Lga.
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