Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: MMDF - how do you forward user mail? Keywords: MMDF, forwarding Message-ID: <8516@gollum.twg.com> Date: 3 Jan 91 19:35:49 GMT References: <385@txsil.lonestar.org> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 39 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. 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. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Not too hard .. and theres a few ways of doing it. You can put an alias in the global alias file like user: :include:/users/home/path/.forward To enable a .forward file for the user. With update 43 a compile-time feature (DOTFORWARD) was added which does the .forward thing directly. But apparently there's a security bug in it (hafta check closer on it..) Finally, at the cost of a bit of header munging, placing the following like in the users .maildelivery file will forward mail * - | A /wherever/the/resend/program/is/resend some-user@some-domain The header munging is to add a couple lines listing Resent-To: and Resent-From: information. I plan on adding a flag to resend to not add those lines ... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.