Re: [ProgSoc] Forwarding Mail from Acacia

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

Vik did scribe:
> 
> If you put /var/mail/username (or where ever your mailbox is
> (/mail/username on some systems)) in your .forward file alongside any
> other addresses, it will (should?) save hte mail in the local box and
> forward it too.
> 
> \/|<

Have you tried this before you sprouted it on the list? Cause from my
reading of the bat-book (ie sendmail book) sendmail would find
/var/mail/vik a very wierd address. Actually an illegal address. And
thus would bounce it. 

You see, /usr/mail/vik is only really known by mail.local, or deliver,
depending on how you setup local mail delivery. Sendmail is not an
mail delivery agent (MDA). It is a mail transport agent
(MTA). 


brett

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