Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!unido!isaak!leonardo!woerz From: woerz%leonardo@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Another EZ Question Summary: Sendmail doesn't do delivery loops Message-ID: <2289@isaak.isa.de> Date: 6 Jan 90 03:10:32 GMT References: <280@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Sender: news@isaak.isa.de Organization: ISA GmbH, Stuttgart, West-Germany Lines: 24 In article <280@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: says something about forwarding mail to another account with sendmail. Dave> Alternatively, you can do something creative like have a copy of it stay Dave> there at Rutgers, while another copy is shot off to work: Dave> Dave> % cat .forward Dave> \deen,deen@work.address Dave> Dave> Note the '\' at the beginning: this is essential because it tells the Dave> mail system that you want it to "force" delivery to 'deen' -- without Dave> it the mail would simply have another copy sent off to your work address Dave> and loop...which would get you a lot of mail!! Dave, as far as I know, sendmail does recognize such a loop and delivers the mail without the backslash to both recipients. I think it checks the .forward file only once, to prevent such nasty loops. Dave> ... Dieter Woerz ISA GmbH, Azenbergstr. 35 D-7000 Stuttgart-1 W-Germany UUCP: {pyramid!iaoobel,uunet!unido}!isaak!woerz BITNET/EARN: woerz@ds0iff5