Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: How can I bounce my mail from one site to another automatically? Keywords: automatic mail bounce Message-ID: <1623@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 15 Nov 89 15:09:51 GMT References: <7306@ingr.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: usa Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 28 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? Without going to a machine with maps and checking I don't know what software these machines run, but here are some suggestions. If ingr is a BSD machine just create a .forward file in your home directory with the line b23b!dragon in it. If ingr is a SysV machine running sendmail, same thing. If ingr is running smail have a global alias installed. If ingr is running deliver consult a guru for a forwarding incantation. | | sub-question: How can I change the From header field? Since this gets mangled by a lot of mailers your best bet might be to persuade your mailer to use a "Reply-To:" field instead. Most mailers will reply to that field if it is present. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon