Re: [ProgSoc] Forwarding Mail from Acacia

[Brett <brett@nospam.uts.edu.au>]

gleNN! did scribe:
> mtruong@nospam.acs.itd.uts.edu.au wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > i would like to know how to forward incoming mails from acacia acct to another email
> > acct but also keep that mail in acacia.
> > apparantly, .forward does not work and
> >         forward email@nospam.domain
> > would only work for one email address.
> >
> 
> I thort we went thru this quite recently?
> 
> stick two addresses in the .forward file ...
> 
> mtruong@nospam.acs.blah
> moses@nospam.yourplace.com
> 
> 
>          gleNN

Hate to be painful. But .forward does not work on acs machines as
sendmail is setup not to look for it. This is due to the distributed
nature in which sendmail is set up to work on the machines in question
(ie the running sendmail process doesn't need to have access to all
the home accounts as it takes incoming mail). 

forward the command puts an entry in a nis table that sendmail
scans. What you really need to use to do what you want is procmail,
but setting up procmail to work on the acs machines is kinda
impossible i fink.

Brett
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