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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU
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Subject: Re: Naive VMS mail question
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Date: Sun, 31-May-87 04:45:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 31 04:45:36 1987
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 > As a rather new user to VMS I would like to know if mail can be
 > forwarded to another system by using mailer!
 > 
 > for instance if I want my mail to be forwarded here to the WELL
 > (a unix machine)  I do the following
 > 
 > set forward
 > mailer!<well!kdavis@lll-lcc.arpa>
 > 
 > but it doesn't seem to work.  Bounces all mail.

Of course it doesn't work.  You must use a valid mail address in your
forwarding address, and "mailer!anything" works out to simply "mailer" since
! is a comment character.  If you have a way to mail anything to the other
system (e.g., your UNIX machine is actually an ULTRIX machine with DECnet,
or you have something like the Software Tools mailer that can talk protocols
other than MAIL-11), then just use the address format that works for that
when you specify your forwarding address.