Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc!deimos!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!mende From: mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: BSD mail .forward question Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 89 14:50:23 GMT References: <6218@saturn.ucsc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Yows `R' us Lines: 23 In article <6218@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes: > I have a user with accounts on two different machines here. He would > like to have it so that when he receives mail addressed to either machine > a copy is delivered to both machines. yes ... but it is a hack... on machine1 have a .forward that looks like: user@machine2 on machine2 have a .forward that looks like: \user user-local@machine1 on machine1 have an entry in /usr/lib/aliases that looks like user-local: \user I dont there is there is an easy way to avoid a mail loop without doing it this way. /Bob... --