Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!princeton!bow.Princeton.EDU!pfalstad From: pfalstad@bow.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Is there a way to forward and keep mail? Keywords: mail .forward Message-ID: <3450@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 19 Oct 90 14:25:17 GMT References: <303@oscar.UUCP> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Lines: 26 In article epeterson@encore.com (Eric Peterson) writes: >mbonner@oscar.UUCP (Matt Bonner) writes: >This can be done quite easily if you're on a site that uses Sendmail, >one of the most common mail transport agents in the Unix world. >Simply create a file called ".forward" in your home directory that >contains the following line (including the quotation marks): > > "| tee /usr/spool/mail/mbonner | mail other-acct@host.domain" > >This will do exactly what you want -- save a copy of your incoming >message to your normal incoming mailbox as well as send a copy of that >mail to another account. Call me stupid, but can't you just make your .forward: \mbonner, other-acct@host.domain ? I think even the \ may be superfluous. -- Paul Falstad, pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu PLink:HYPNOS GEnie:P.FALSTAD And Dinsdale said, "You've been a naughty boy, Clement," and splits me nostrils open, and saws me leg off, and pulls me liver out. And I said, "My name's not Clement." And then he loses his temper. And he nails me head to the floor.