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From: chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: MMDF - how do you forward user mail?
Keywords: MMDF, forwarding
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Date: 18 Dec 90 23:54:12 GMT
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In article <385@txsil.lonestar.org> steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) writes:
>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.  

Steve...
   ".forward" is a SendMailism as far as I know.  Use ".maildelivery"
and pipe the message to "resend" to forward mail.  Latter version of MMDF
support .forward, but I have heard there are problems....

Like so:
#
# mmdf maildelivery
#
*	-	pipe	A	/usr/local/resend cranor@louie.udel.edu

Chuck

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