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Subject: Re: email keeping and forwarding From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> Date: 07 Jan 2000 17:57:02 -0500 Steve Dixon <steve@dpn.com> writes: > whats the best way to have incoming email for a person to go to their > account and also to another account on a different domain that i do not > control? the .forward works but doesnt keep a local copy in the users > account. Put into .forward: \username, other@account.com === Subject: Re: email keeping and forwarding From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 09:01:15 +0800 > whats the best way to have incoming email for a person to go to their > account and also to another account on a different domain that i do not > control? the .forward works but doesnt keep a local copy in the users > account. > .forward does work; \user,her@there in user's .forward file (and with secure permissions) === Subject: Re: email and forwarding From: Nils Philippsen <nils@wombat.dialup.fht-esslingen.de> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 02:36:52 +0100 (CET) On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Steve Dixon wrote: > whats the best way to have incoming email for a person to go to their > account and also to another account on a different domain that i do not > control? the .forward works but doesnt keep a local copy in the users > account. --- 8< --- .forward --- otheraccount@somewhere.else.com account@local.system.org --- 8< --- Sendmail notices that the last line is the local address and does a copy but forwards it, too. === Subject: Re: email keeping and forwarding From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:14:51 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Steve Dixon said: SD>whats the best way to have incoming email for a person to go to their SD>account and also to another account on a different domain that i do not SD>control? the .forward works but doesnt keep a local copy in the users SD>account. Use a .procmailrc instead of a .forward file. man procmailex for examples. === Subject: Re: email and forwarding From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <andrewm@netwinder.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:29:28 -0500 Steve Dixon wrote: > whats the best way to have incoming email for a person to go to their > account and also to another account on a different domain that i do not > control? the .forward works but doesnt keep a local copy in the users > account. procmail by far. See the man pages (procmail, procmailrc, etc.) The .procmailrc config you want is something like :0 c ! peter.pan@neverland.com This forwards to peter.pan@neverland.com and copies the message so it will be delivered locally too. ===