Subject: .forward question

From: [email-masked] (Dave)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 18:28:04 GMT

Can one use the .forward file to forward a message and keep it in the local 
inbox mailbox. Or perhaps have it filed in a different mailbox after it has 
been forwarded?

d

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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Mar 1996 13:00:57 GMT

[email-masked] (Dave) writes:
>inbox mailbox.

Yes:
Put both the forward address and you own address into the .forward and
a backslash before your own local address to prevent recursion.

Example:
\guckes,user@domain

>Or perhaps have it filed in a different mailbox after it has been forwarded?

Filing must be done via a filter program. (I think)
Thus you'd have to install a filter and set up the rules for it.

Take a look at ELM's filter - it allows rules which read thus:
	if (from = address) then save ~/newmail/IN.mailing.list

Info is on page
	http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elm/elm.filter.html

Sven

Cc: [email-masked] (Dave)

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 03:14:55 +0200

> Filing must be done via a filter program. (I think)

    Not necessarily...  Here's a dot-forward file we got:
"|/usr/local/bin/filter -o /home/BoZo/.elm/filter-errors"
/usr/people/BoZo/archive/received

    The result is that for this user, ~/archive/received is a massive flat
mail file which the Berzerkeley drivers in Pine or IMAPd can read (albeit
much more slowly than an alternate format file).  The end result is that
the filter program decides how to deal with mail, but no matter what
happens to that mail as a result, we still have a copy which can be
retrieved for later reference.

Barry Bouwsma, chief BoZo
Radio PrAHA!