Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!samsung!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: How can I bounce my mail from one site to another automatically? Message-ID: <25687E66.29975@ateng.com> Date: 20 Nov 89 22:44:52 GMT References: <255EF9BF.14590@ateng.com> <751@lakart.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 23 According to dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough): >According to chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg): >> But even with Deliver installed I just use the ".forward" file for simple >> forwarding, since Deliver doesn't know about "user@host" (yet :-)). > >Wait a minute - you can get /bin/sh to crunch mail with deliver. Well, yes. But then, it's the _delivery_file_ that understands "user@host". Deliver itself understands "host!user" -- it runs uux -- but it doesn't understand "user@host". So, unless you've written a smart post-user delivery file, "echo user@host" won't work very well in a user delivery file. >Come to that, with some REAL creative genius, I could see deliver replacing >smail / sendmail ..... (Now, come on David, stop dreaming :-) ) Really, that wouldn't be too hard. At least, replacing Smail 2.5 wouldn't be too hard. Smail 3 -- well, who'd want to re-implement that? :-) -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; or "Did I ever tell you the Jim Gladding story about the binoculars?"