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- From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
- Subject: Re: Syntax for .forward file?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.151624.28326@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner)
- Reply-To: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu
- Organization: University of Michigan
- References: <1992Jul29.051420.568@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:16:24 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <1992Jul29.051420.568@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG> bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.ORG
- writes:
- > 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...
- >
-
- > 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)
- >
- >
-
- > Bruce
- > --
- > Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Total System Software)
- > InterNet: Bruce.Gingery@p1.f5.n310.z1.fidonet.org ( Cheyenne, Wyoming )
- > or bruce@brucext.TotSysSoft.com
- > NeXT-Mail: bruce@tssnext.rmNUG.org < -or- > bruce@TotSysSoft.com
-
-
-
- Bruce, I did find the vacation and alias man pages, thanks. Those both mention
- forward, and vacation gives an example--I was looking for a complete
- specification of the .forward syntax. I mimicked the vacation example for one
- of my users and it wasn't working. The example doesn't explain, for instance,
- why the backslash: \eric. (Turns out that's the syntax to make the mail be
- delivered to you also, despite .forwarding.)
-
- Turns out the problem was due to a confusion between local and network-wide
- accounts--we put the .forward file on one machine, but his mail was actually
- being handled on a different machine.
-
- Thanks for the replies--one of the e-mail replies clarified the syntax. Also,
- my apologies for the original request being posted twice--Newsgrazer gave me
- an error message that made me think the first attempt hadn't been posted, so
- I tried again.
-
- --
- Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason internet: jmm@econ.lsa.umich.edu
- Dept. of Economics bitnet: usergc76@umichum
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