Subject: Re: How to .forward and keep a copy at the same time?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 16:51:18 -0500

On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Butch wrote:

> I want all the email that's sent to my school forwarded to
> my home address. That's easy, but I also want to keep a copy
> of the email in the school...

    Well, it all depends on information which you did not provide. 
There are so many combinations and possibilities in the universe that
there simply is no single answer.  If the mail is addressed to a system
running some kind of Un*x and if procmail is available on that system,
then you can do what you want to do with procmail.  There are other
possible solutions depending on what your setup is.  As such, your
inquiry has nothing to do with Pine, which will not do what you want. 
(It was never designed to.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 10 Nov 1996 15:18:15 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Butch <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Help! 

You can have more than one address in the .forward file, separated by
commas, so put your school username there too, but prepended by "\", e.g.

\butch, [email-masked]

The "\" prevents the mail program from trying to use the .forward file
again and going into an infinite loop..

For more about forwarding do a "man 5 forward" from the UNIX prompt.
(Chapter 5 in the manual pages is about file formats.)

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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