Subject: .forward file ???

From: [email-masked] (Byrg Bonnelycke)
Date: 15 Jan 1996 19:28:06 GMT

Hi:
Sorry!  This is my second posting, since I don't know if the first
one "took."

Can you put comments in the .forward file ?
If so,  how do you do it ?
Thanx,  Byrg

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From: Tony Iannotti <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:21:09 -0500 (EST)

> Can you put comments in the .forward file ?

Your posts are coming through. I don't know, but the filter FAQ might help:

  http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/

  Since it's usually a one-liner, I don't think most people have ever 
needed to comment it, but if you are using it for filtering, then 
procmail and filter's rules files can cerr certainly have comments. (#)

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From: [email-masked] (The Doctor)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:53:30 GMT

[email-masked] (Byrg Bonnelycke) wrote:          (15 Jan 1996 19:28:06 GMT)

->Hi:
->Sorry!  This is my second posting, since I don't know if the first
->one "took."
->
->Can you put comments in the .forward file ?
->If so,  how do you do it ?
->Thanx,  Byrg
->
The way I understand it, only the first line of the .forward file is read, so
you can put as much as you want in there.
                                                         *-> The Doctor <-*

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:00:54 +0800 (GMT)

> you can put as much as you want in there.

	Ummm....sorry you can have multiple lines and thus multiple
forwarding actions in your .forward.  

	I do know that everything after a "#" on a line is considered a
comment.  I've not tried it a the beginning of a line.

	Regards,

			Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Byrg)
Date: 21 Jan 1996 04:19:12 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] 
says...
>
>[email-masked] (Byrg Bonnelycke) wrote:    (15 Jan 1996 19:28:06 GMT
>
>->Hi:

>you can put as much as you want in there.
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Sorry, but I think you are wrong!
In the meantime I've studied several references to the .forward file.
I also tested and founded out that::

1) any line starting with the # character is a comment line;
   (useful for "commenting out" lines you don't want to erase!)
2) It's OK to have several lines in the .forward file; I've tried;
3) you may put not only a filter() function ALONE on a line;
   you may also put a single FQDN address ALONE on a line;
   (FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name, e.g. joe.blow @somehost.com  
4) if you put (a single) FQDN address on a line,  then ALL incoming    
   messages will be forwarded to that address WITHOUT any filtering,
   as well as to you default PINE folder.

Greetings,  Byrg