Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!andy From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: full description of .forward Summary: filenames permissable also Message-ID: <6931@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 19 Nov 90 15:46:54 GMT References: <1990Oct29.230614.4328@mp.cs.niu.edu> Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 20 In article <1990Oct29.230614.4328@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article victor@arnor.uucp writes: >>Can someone supply me with (or point me to) a FULL description of the >>contents of .forward? [...] > > .forward consists of a comma separated list of addresses. It is permissible >for one or more of those addresses to be programs, as in: >"|program parameters". It is also permissable to use the pathname of a file to which (if the file's permissions are correct) the mail message will be appended. -Andy -- Andy Poling Internet: andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu UNIX Systems Programmer Bitnet: ANDY@JHUNIX Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: uunet!mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!andy