haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) (02/03/89)
I have a user with accounts on two different machines here. He would
like to have it so that when he receives mail addressed to either machine
a copy is delivered to both machines.
What he naively was to have a .forward file on both machines saying
to deliver to the local machine and also to the other. This of course
resulted in the mail bouncing between the two machines until the maximum
hop count hit, then delivering it to MAILER-DAEMON.
Can anybody think of a clever way to achieve what he wants?
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Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chroniclemende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) (02/03/89)
In article <6218@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes: > I have a user with accounts on two different machines here. He would > like to have it so that when he receives mail addressed to either machine > a copy is delivered to both machines. yes ... but it is a hack... on machine1 have a .forward that looks like: user@machine2 on machine2 have a .forward that looks like: \user user-local@machine1 on machine1 have an entry in /usr/lib/aliases that looks like user-local: \user I dont there is there is an easy way to avoid a mail loop without doing it this way. /Bob... --
gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) (02/04/89)
Hmm... give the user the login name MAILER-DAEMON, and everything will be fine... No, serious, there is a simple solution: hosta:/etc/aliases the-user: the-user-copy, the-user-copy@hostb the-user-copy: \the-user hostb:/etc/aliases the-user: the-user-copy, the-user-copy@hosta the-user-copy: \the-user This uses indirection to a -copy alias to avoid loops. The \ avoids further aliasing done on the mailbox name. -- Juergen Wagner gandalf@csli.stanford.edu wagner@arisia.xerox.com
merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) (02/05/89)
In article <Feb.3.09.50.22.1989.25618@athos.rutgers.edu>, mende@athos (Bob Mende Pie) writes: | In article <6218@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes: | | > I have a user with accounts on two different machines here. He would | > like to have it so that when he receives mail addressed to either machine | > a copy is delivered to both machines. | | yes ... but it is a hack... | | on machine1 have a .forward that looks like: | user@machine2 | | on machine2 have a .forward that looks like: | \user | user-local@machine1 | | on machine1 have an entry in /usr/lib/aliases that looks like | user-local: \user | | I dont there is there is an easy way to avoid a mail loop without doing it | this way. How about... $HOME/.forward: "\user,|$HOME/.forwarder" $HOME/.forwarder: (mode 755) if tee /tmp/forw.$$ | grep -s "From: $USER@othermachine" then : else mail $USER@othermachine </tmp/forw.$$ fi rm /tmp/forw.$$ The "grep" would have to be adjusted to discover mail from the other machine. And yes, it is a bit of a kluge, because mail cc:'ed this way from the other machine has a bad 'from' line until you have adjusted it, but hey, at least it doesn't require adding new aliases in /usr/lib/aliases (which some of us do not have access to). -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. ARPA: <@iwarp.intel.com:merlyn@intelob.intel.com> (fastest!) MX-Internet: <merlyn@intelob.intel.com> UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer! Cute quote: "Welcome to Oregon... home of the California Raisins!"