deen@topaz.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin) (01/04/90)
Does Elm allow you to forward mail to another address automatically?
That is I would like my account at Rutgers to automatically send
any mail received to my account at work, without intervention
from me.
This may sound like a silly question, but the documentation at Rutgers
is pretty sparse { No offense MC ;=> }
If anyone has a good set of docs they would like to mail, it would
be appreciated.
-Z Raisin
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< < < < M A Y T H E P R E Z E N T T E N Z B E W I T H Y O U > > > >taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (01/04/90)
What you really want to do is not to have Elm forward your mail at all,
but rather let the lower level mail transport agent do the work. I
assume that your site is running "sendmail" (*) in which case you can
most simply create a file in your home directory called ".forward" with
your email address contained therein:
% cat .forward
deen@work.address
Alternatively, you can do something creative like have a copy of it stay
there at Rutgers, while another copy is shot off to work:
% cat .forward
\deen,deen@work.address
Note the '\' at the beginning: this is essential because it tells the
mail system that you want it to "force" delivery to 'deen' -- without
it the mail would simply have another copy sent off to your work address
and loop...which would get you a lot of mail!!
If you're NOT running sendmail, then with luck you're running a System
V based "rmail" program, in which case you can do something like the
following (make sure your mailbox is empty first!):
% echo "Forward to deen@work.address" >! /usr/mail/deen
which should do the trick.
Good luck with this all.
-- Dave Taylor
(*) to find out if you're running sendmail, type "mailq" and see what
happens: if it can find the command, then you're probably in luck.
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylorwoerz%leonardo@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz) (01/06/90)
In article <280@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:
says something about forwarding mail to another account with sendmail.
Dave> Alternatively, you can do something creative like have a copy of it stay
Dave> there at Rutgers, while another copy is shot off to work:
Dave>
Dave> % cat .forward
Dave> \deen,deen@work.address
Dave>
Dave> Note the '\' at the beginning: this is essential because it tells the
Dave> mail system that you want it to "force" delivery to 'deen' -- without
Dave> it the mail would simply have another copy sent off to your work address
Dave> and loop...which would get you a lot of mail!!
Dave, as far as I know, sendmail does recognize such a loop and
delivers the mail without the backslash to both recipients. I think
it checks the .forward file only once, to prevent such nasty loops.
Dave> ...
Dieter Woerz
ISA GmbH, Azenbergstr. 35 D-7000 Stuttgart-1 W-Germany
UUCP: {pyramid!iaoobel,uunet!unido}!isaak!woerz
BITNET/EARN: woerz@ds0iff5ripley@tubopal.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert) (01/08/90)
Forward looping inside one system as mentionend in above articles (see reference-line of the message-header) is one problem, but as I think it's quite simple to work around it. The way I'd need forwarding is somewhat more complex, though. I have an account at the university (this one) which I can't log into from home and therefore I also have another account on a public access machine to read news. What I want is to get all mail to this account forwarded to the acount on the public access machine and vice versa - without mail- ping-pong. How do I do that ? As far as I know the university's machines allow forwarding but the other one does not... On the public access machine, there is elm installed and here it isn't. So, is it possible to implement a forwarding mechanism into elm which detects already forwaded messages and doesn't bounce them back? Greetings, RIPLEY -- Greetings from RIPLEY | UUCP: ripley@tubopal.UUCP (ripley@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) Hans-Christian Eckert | ...!unido!tub!opal!ripley (Europe) D-1000 Berlin 30 | ...!pyramid!tub!opal!ripley (World) Regensburger Str. 2 | BITNET: ripley%tubopal@DB0TUI11.BITNET (saves $$$)