Subject: Newbie Question

From: [email-masked] (Dawson E. Rambo)
Date: 13 Apr 1995 18:16:22 GMT

Hiya...have a question. I have two email addresses on different systems, 
and am currently using a .foward file to send messages from the one I use 
rarely to the one I use every day. What I want to know, is there another 
type of file that will transparantly only COPY the message to my current 
.foward address while leaving it still at the original site?

I read a FAQ or two and didn't see this addressed... :)

TIA,
Daws

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 00:10:08 -0700

> I read a FAQ or two and didn't see this addressed... :)

Where you *should* look is under the manpages for sendmail. The .forward
is a function of sendmail, not pine. Anyway, you can do a lot with a
.forward. I think what you want is to change your .forward from: 

[email-masked]

to something like this:

\drambo, [email-masked]

If this is installed on your cloud9 account, then a copy will be kept in 
the INBOX for [email-masked] (\drambo) and another copy sent to 
[email-masked] ([email-masked]). A copy of the relevant section 
of the manpages for sendmail follows:

				Ian Ollmann

[Quote:]

FORWARDING MAIL USING SENDMAIL
     As a personal alternative to aliasing, a user may put a file with the
     name .forward in his home directory.  If this file exists, sendmail
     redirects mail for that user to the list of recipients in the .forward
     file.  The recipients listed in the .forward file may be separated by
     commas or new-lines.  Programs and files are valid recipients.  For
     example, if user ``jane'' has a .forward file containing:

        [email-masked]
        /usr/tmp/mail.log
        |/usr/local/bin/mymailer

     sendmail will redirect all incoming messages for ``jane'' to
     [email-masked]'', append a copy of the message to the file
     /usr/tmp/mail.log (if it has o+w permissions) and pipe a copy of the mes-
     sage to standard input of /usr/local/bin/mymailer.  The user may redirect
->   mail to himself in addition to sending it on to other destinations.  This
->   is particularly useful in the event that the user wishes to continue to
->   receive mail in his own mailbox while passing copies of each incoming
->   message on to some alternative destination.  For example, if the home
     directory for user ``john'' contains a .forward file with contents:

        \john, "|/usr/sbin/vacation john"

     sendmail will append each incoming message to ``john'''s regular mailbox
     and send a copy of each message to the /usr/sbin/vacation program.

[Unquote:]