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From: MARK%jrs.jrschan%ICS.UCI.EDU%KL.SRI.COM%lbl%sfsu1.hepnet@LBL.GOV
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Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding?
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Date: 27 May 88 18:17:35 GMT
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From: Mark <MARK%jrs.jrschan@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Logical Mail Forwarding?
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>> 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"?
 
From an account with SYSNAM privilege, get into MAIL and say
  set forward/user=help manager
 
The user need not exist.  In fact, the forwarding address doesn't have to be a
real user, either, although if it isn't and has no forwarding address, mail
to it will be rejected.
 
You can set up chains of forwarding addresses if you like:
   set forward/user=help helper
   set forward/user=helper postmaster
   set forward/user=postmaster manager
And the destination doesn't need to be on the same node:
   set forward /user=fred fredsvax::freddie
   set forward /user=info-vax "in%""info-vax@kl.sri.com"""
(The last one is an example using PMDF, the non-local mailer used at this site.)
 
     Mark Wadsworth