Subject: Re: Forwarding.

From: "Tommy Darby" <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Jul 1996 04:28:01 GMT

Tom Cowell <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> > >The question is if my old company has to pay for any traffic that is 
> > >produced by people trying to send mail to my old account.  The
internet 
> > >provider charges the company be the transmitted amount of information.
 
> > >Is the mail first completely sent to my old address and then forwarded
or 
> > >directly forwarded to my new account?
> > 
> > Yes, mails go to the first destination and are forwarded by that
machine
> > to the second.  If you hate to waste computer/network resources, you 
> > should inform the senders to send all emails to your preferred account 
> > directly.

[snip]
 
> allowed to compile/install software on it, then you could do the
following.
> Use your .forward file to pipe the mail into procmail, and set up a
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This assumes your mail administrator has not setup your mail configuration
file such that mail forwards are handled out of a central location (i.e.
/var/forward). Many installation look there first, and then MAYBE at the
/home/.forward file.

> .procmailrc file that a) forwards the message to you, and b) sends a
prepared
> message to the originator of the mail, informing them of your address
change.
> Quite a major job if you don't already know how to do it, though.

-- 
Regards,
Tommy Darby --- [email-masked]