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- From: bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Syntax for .forward file?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.051420.568@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 05:14:20 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.140456.2096@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: <bruce@TotSysSoft.com> (Bruce Gingery)
- Organization: Total System Software
- Lines: 68
-
- In <1992Jul27.200734.26489@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
- jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason) writes:
- :>Can someone point me to documentation for .forward files? I've used Digital
- :>Librarian to search all of the NeXT docs, FAQ, NeXTAnswers...
-
- irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes:
- :
- : If you're going to manage a Unix-type system, buy yourself some of
- : the normal documentation:
- : 1. Buy Evi Nemeth's (with 2 others) _Unix System Administration
- : Handbook._
- : 2. Join Usenix and buy its BSD Unix manual set.
-
- : Here's my .forward file; I hope it helps:
- : |/usr/local/bin/deliver irving
- :
- : Here's an older version with two recipients:
- : irving@happy-man.com, |/Net/beauty/usr/local/bin/newmail irving
-
- While I must agree that external documentation DOES help a lot, the above
- original post raises a question WHY Jeffrey didn't find the entries in the
- Unix on-line manual (perhaps didn't have it selected?)...
-
- A quick grep of the on-line Unix manuals finds...
-
- VACATION(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual VACATION(1)
-
- ( portions deleted )
-
- For example, your .forward file might have:
-
- \eric, "|vacation eric"
-
- which would send messages to you (assuming your login name
- was eric) and send a message back to the sender.
-
- Vacation expects a file .vacation.msg in your home directory
- containing a message to be sent back to each sender. It
- should be an entire message (including headers). For exam-
- ple, it might say:
-
- From: eric@ucbmonet.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
- Subject: I am on vacation
- Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: the Vacation program
-
- I am on vacation until July 22. If you have something urgent,
- please contact Joe Kalash <kalash@ucbingres.Berkeley.EDU>.
- --eric
-
- This message will only be sent once a week to each unique
- sender...
-
- And...
-
- ALIASES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual ALIASES(5)
-
- (again portions deleted)
-
- After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who
- have a ``.forward'' file in their home directory have mes-
- sages forwarded to the list of users defined in that file.
-
- Bruce
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