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From: steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: MMDF - how do you forward user mail?
Keywords: MMDF, forwarding
Message-ID: <385@txsil.lonestar.org>
Date: 18 Dec 90 01:51:11 GMT
Reply-To: steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel)
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas TX
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On a system that uses MMDF, how does a user arrange to have his mail
forwarded to another account (possibly on another machine)?  Back in
the Good Old Days, we had a 4.2BSD system with sendmail, and a .forward
file in a user's home directory served this purpose admirably.  As far
as I can figure out, MMDF requires that a global system alias file be
modified *each* time *any* user wants to start or stop forwarding email.
Is this correct?  (I hope not, because if so, the local VMS system
admininstrator wins a brownie point in favor of his otherwise ugly
email software. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Stephen McConnel
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