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Subject: Re: Control of Bounced Messages
From: David Smith <smithd @ blkbox . com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 18:56:21 -0400
To: AdmiralJ <admiralj @ inwave . com>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <33E61E81.C3F151CC@inwave.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970804124115.19072A-100000@luomat.peak.org>

At 1:25 PM -0500 on 8/4/97, AdmiralJ wrote:


> I tend to agree with Tim Luoma on this one, but it is not a hack -
> rather a feature.
>
> Putting a file named ".forward" in the UNIX directory of a shell account
> allows any mail send to that account to be automatically forwarded to
> the address listed in the file.  The original headers are preserved.
>
> We use Linux and sendmail.  This feature works great.

This works on machines running sendmail.  It does not work with other
mailers.  For an example that I know of MMDF uses the fiel .maildelivery
with a completly different format.




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