Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!LBL.GOV!JONES-D%OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU%KL.SRI.COM%lbl%sfsu1.hepnet From: JONES-D%OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU%KL.SRI.COM%lbl%sfsu1.hepnet@LBL.GOV Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding? Message-ID: <880527111813.23e03311@LBL.Gov> Date: 27 May 88 18:18:13 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Received: from KL.SRI.COM by LBL.Gov with INTERNET ; Fri, 27 May 88 01:25:01 PDT Received: from OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Wed 25 May 88 10:02:44-PDT Date: Wed 25 May 88 13:02:04-EDT From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding? To: %unocss.uucp@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU cc: info-vax@KL.SRI.COM In-Reply-To: Message from "dent<%unocss.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu> (David B. Caplinger)" of Fri 20 May 88 19:49:32-EDT A suitably privileged user can add an arbitrary username to the VMSMAIL forwarding database without that name being an actual account. In fact, the name kept in the forwarding file doesn't even have to be a valid VMS username (e.g. ALBERT-EINSTEIN). To set up forwarding for HELP, you'd type the command: MAIL> SET FORWARD/USER=HELP SYSTEM Dave Jones Ohio State University 1981 Neil Ave. Rm 406 Columbus OH, 43210 -------