Re: forwarding mail

Jas (matt@nospam.uts.edu.au)
Fri, 4 Nov 1994 17:54:52 +1100

Christopher Fraser wrote this...
>
> But I thought Jon Alan Guyer said:
> >
> >
> > I don't suppose anyone knows how to forward mail from one internet email
> > account to another automatically using? (Yes i'm one of these poor btechs
> > on industrial semester). Not that I particularly appreciate receiving ~60
> > messages a day from progsoc (especially if i log in weekly).
>
> For BSDish sendmail systems you can create a .forward in your home directory
> (see the forward manual page). For SVR? systems, you empty your mailbox
> and use a special option to the mail command (-F I think).
>
svr4 has exactly the same mail forwarding as BSD. svr[2-3] and splinters
(such as SCO) *shrug*, if you have installed sendmail 8.x on such a system
they also handle ~/.forward, but if you have the native mail distributer
*shrug*.

Matt

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