forwarding mail

[melniker at eecs.tufts.edu (Douglas Melniker)]

Sendmail recognizes a .forward file in a user's home directory to be
forwrading instructions. In your case, you want to keep a copy of the mail
on the machine and send a copy to a remote machine. here's what you should 
do, assuming your username is agabriel

echo '\agabriel, user at other.host.com' > ~/.forward

That's it. Sendmail is picky about permissions though: make sure that
.forward and all directories leading to it (recursively from /) are only
writable to user.

As always, make sure to test it out before you commit to it :)

HTH,
Doug Melniker


On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I need to send a carbon copy of all mail I get to one address to
> another.  I need my email on two networks that can't be be bridged, and I 
> would like to use the internal machines. I was wondering if anyone new if
> sendmail had built in functionality for this - or if there is a script
> somewhere out there that can do this.
> 
> THanks,
> Anthony
> 
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