Re: [ProgSoc] forwarding mail question

["Dennis L. Clark" <dbugger@nospam.vnet.net>]

On Tue, May 05 1998, Jay Banyer wrote:
| vlrajews@nospam.acs.itd.uts.edu.au wrote:
| >
| > > .forward
| > > bssandhu@nospam.urnet.com.au
| > > bssandhu@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au
| > > <plus any others you want it to go to>
| > 
| > I think this would create an endless mail loop. What I do is forward it to
| > my mailbox ie
| > 
| As myself and Glenn have already said several times, from personal
| experience, including the address of the host account in the .forward
| file the WILL NOT cause an endless loop. I don't know how it actually
| goes about it, but from the user's perspective the email will just
| appear in the account like normal, plus be forwarded to any other
| address specified in the file.

Read the bottom of the forward(4) man page (on geryon at least) for the
"Real Story". I suspect tho that the behaviour is heavily dependant on
which version of sendmail is being used (assuming sendmail is the local
MTA in the first place).

Cheers,

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