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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: How can I bounce my mail from one site to another automatically?
Keywords: automatic mail bounce
Message-ID: <13209@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 89 04:30:16 GMT
References: <7306@ingr.com> <925@kcdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
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Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <925@kcdev.UUCP> gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry) writes:
>In article <7306@ingr.com>, fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) writes:
>> 
>> I read news, reply to news, and post news from uunet!ingr but my
>> base system is at uunet!ingr!b23b!dragon.  How can I have mail
>> that is sent to uunet!ingr automatically bounced to my base?
>> 
>This is easy.  Just have the system administrator at ingr create a file in
>/usr/mail with your id as the file name.  In the file place the following 
>line:
>      Forward to !b23b!dragon!{your id here}

This is a SysV-ism.  And, besides, you don't need that leading "!".
I'm not sure why it's there but I see lots of people use it.  It's
not required by any software with which I'm familiar ...

On Sendmail machines you instead place a ".forward" file in your home
directory which gives an address to which to send the mail.  I believe
you can also pipe into a process from the ".forward" file.

On MMDF sites you can do some rule-based matching on various
header lines and have actions available which will junk the
message, append it to a file, or pipe it into a process.  The
same file & file-format work with "mh" users.

(MMDF will "soon" Officially develop the ability to directly
use ".forward" files much the same way that Sendmail uses them.
A difference is that the piping format will be "user|command"
instead of "|command"..  er.. I guess I'd better check that
for security vilations, oughtn't I?  :-)  ).

I'm sure "deliver" has something neat and wonderful which that
Chip fella will tell us about.

On most of the "useful" mail systems (i.e. *NOT* the lack of
mail system you have on SysV) you can also arrange with the
system admin/postmaster critter to add an alias for you
which will cause mail to alias@such-and-so to be sent to
wherever the alias points.


>> sub-question:  How can I change the From header field?


If you're using 'rn' there's an environment variable and/or
"dot" file in your dot directory which lets you specify the format
of news and mail headers.  This *only* works with rn.  Look at
the man page for more details, I just remember that you *can* do it.
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