steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) (12/18/90)
On a system that uses MMDF, how does a user arrange to have his mail
forwarded to another account (possibly on another machine)? Back in
the Good Old Days, we had a 4.2BSD system with sendmail, and a .forward
file in a user's home directory served this purpose admirably. As far
as I can figure out, MMDF requires that a global system alias file be
modified *each* time *any* user wants to start or stop forwarding email.
Is this correct? (I hope not, because if so, the local VMS system
admininstrator wins a brownie point in favor of his otherwise ugly
email software. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Dallas, TX 75236 Internet: steve@txsil.lonestar.orgchuck@dworkin.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor) (12/19/90)
In article <385@txsil.lonestar.org> steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) writes: >On a system that uses MMDF, how does a user arrange to have his mail >forwarded to another account (possibly on another machine)? Back in >the Good Old Days, we had a 4.2BSD system with sendmail, and a .forward >file in a user's home directory served this purpose admirably. Steve... ".forward" is a SendMailism as far as I know. Use ".maildelivery" and pipe the message to "resend" to forward mail. Latter version of MMDF support .forward, but I have heard there are problems.... Like so: # # mmdf maildelivery # * - pipe A /usr/local/resend cranor@louie.udel.edu Chuck -- Chuck Cranor E-Mail: chuck@maria.wustl.edu / cranor@udel.edu here: 8069 Valcour Ave, Apt 202, St. Louis MO 63123 home: 104 Ashley Court, Greenville DE, 19807
david@twg.com (David S. Herron) (01/04/91)
In article <385@txsil.lonestar.org> steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) writes: >On a system that uses MMDF, how does a user arrange to have his mail >forwarded to another account (possibly on another machine)? Back in >the Good Old Days, we had a 4.2BSD system with sendmail, and a .forward >file in a user's home directory served this purpose admirably. As far >as I can figure out, MMDF requires that a global system alias file be >modified *each* time *any* user wants to start or stop forwarding email. >Is this correct? (I hope not, because if so, the local VMS system >admininstrator wins a brownie point in favor of his otherwise ugly >email software. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Not too hard .. and theres a few ways of doing it. You can put an alias in the global alias file like user: :include:/users/home/path/.forward To enable a .forward file for the user. With update 43 a compile-time feature (DOTFORWARD) was added which does the .forward thing directly. But apparently there's a security bug in it (hafta check closer on it..) Finally, at the cost of a bit of header munging, placing the following like in the users .maildelivery file will forward mail * - | A /wherever/the/resend/program/is/resend some-user@some-domain The header munging is to add a couple lines listing Resent-To: and Resent-From: information. I plan on adding a flag to resend to not add those lines ... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com> <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <david@ms.uky.edu> <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.