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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD mail .forward question
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Date: 4 Feb 89 06:32:48 GMT
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Hmm... give the user the login name MAILER-DAEMON, and everything will be
fine... No, serious, there is a simple solution:

hosta:/etc/aliases
	the-user:	the-user-copy, the-user-copy@hostb
	the-user-copy:	\the-user

hostb:/etc/aliases
	the-user:	the-user-copy, the-user-copy@hosta
	the-user-copy:	\the-user

This uses indirection to a -copy alias to avoid loops. The \ avoids further
aliasing done on the mailbox name.

-- 
Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com