Subject: email forwarding

From: "Rebecca M. Hart" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:45:48 -0500

I have never used an email forwarding client but would like to.  Can you
help me get started?  

Beck

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Dec 1997 04:47:40 +0100

>> "RMH" == Rebecca M Hart <[email-masked]> writes:

RMH> I have never used an email forwarding client but would like to.
RMH> Can you help me get started?

ALIASES(5)            UNIX Programmer's Manual                 ALIASES(5)

NAME
     aliases - aliases file for sendmail

SYNOPSIS
     aliases

DESCRIPTION

     This file describes user ID aliases used by /usr/sbin/sendmail. The
     file resides in /etc and is formatted as a series of lines of the
     form

           name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .

     The name is the name to alias, and the name_n are the aliases for
     that name.  Lines beginning with white space are continuation
     lines.  Lines beginning with `#' are comments.

     Aliasing occurs only on local names.  Loops can not occur, since
     no mes- sage will be sent to any person more than once.

     After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who
     have a ``.forward'' file in their home directory have messages
     forwarded to the list of users defined in that file.

     This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is
     placed into a binary format in the file /etc/aliases.db using the
     program newaliases(1).  A newaliases command should be executed each
     time the aliases file is changed for the change to take effect.

SEE ALSO
     newaliases(1),  dbopen(3),  dbm(3),  sendmail(8)

     SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.

     SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.

BUGS
     If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB,
     you may have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single
     alias to about 1000 bytes of information.  You can get longer
     aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in the alias
     be a dummy name which is a con- tinuation alias.

HISTORY
     The aliases file format appeared in 4.0BSD.
4th Berkeley Distribution      December 11, 1993                             1

Now - start!

Robin

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Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
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