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- From: lga@sandman.stanford.edu(Laurent Amon)
- Subject: Re: Syntax for .forward fils
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.013915.27271@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: amon@cs.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul27.205930.27509@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 01:39:15 GMT
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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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- Laurent Amon | we're doing one about going to see
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