forwarding mail

Bob Daniel rad at genco.bungi.com
Thu Jan 24 06:26:09 AEST 1991


In article <Jan.22.21.51.12.1991.29374 at remus.rutgers.edu> mef at remus.rutgers.edu (Marc E. Fiuczynski) writes:
>Hi there,
>I'm using a 3B2 running SVR3.1.  How do I forward mail from
>this machine to another.  Basically, I want to forward all
>the mail that I receive on the 3B2 to another machine.
>
>I remember one way of doing it is to have an entry in /usr/mail/<user> :
>user@<host>
>
>Or can I use a .forward file the way it works with ucbmail?


Simply make this entry in the /usr/mail/login_id file.

Forward to machine!login_id


Then to ensure proper ownership:
# chown login_id login_id
# chgrp mail login_id
# chmod 662 login_id



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