sendmail forward how to?

Andre Speelmans andre at as.no-ip.com
Thu Jul 22 11:35:55 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:04:27PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:49, kursik3 wrote:

> > There is one mail box from which I want to do the forward on other box.
> > 
> > user1 at myserver.com  ----> any at anydomain.com
> > 
> > But I want to leave also letters in the first box.
> > 
> > I have created a file /home/user1/.forward and have written there any at anydomain.com
> > 
> > The forward works, letters leave on any at anydomain.com, but they do not remain in user1 at myserver.com, and I want that remained.
> > 

[ solution using /etc/aliases snipped ]
> 
> Using the .forward file will not allow mail to remain in the users box.

<digging deeply into memory>
IIRC it could if you prepended the username with a backslash....
</digging>

-- 
Regards,

Andre





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