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From: mitch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding?
Keywords: mail forward
Message-ID: <4936@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 23 May 88 18:03:28 GMT
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Reply-To: mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
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Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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>Does anyone know if the following is possible?
>
>Without actually setting up an account called (for example) "HELP",
>is it possible to set up some kind of logical or something to have any
>incoming mail addressed to "HELP" (even from bitnet, arpanet, etc)
>to be forwarded to a specific person, (for example) "MANAGER"?

Just get into mail under an account that has SYSNAM privilege and

SET FORWARD/USER=HELP MANAGER

An account named HELP doesn't need to exist for this to work.
(Yes, I've done this before.)

-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu