From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 11:55: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.clifftop.net (machassociates-6.dsl.easynet.co.uk [217.204.162.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6FF37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gandalf (bilbo.shire.com [192.168.1.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.clifftop.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1MJsfcB017939; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:54:41 GMT From: "Danny Horne" To: "Lord Raiden" , Subject: RE: mail aliasing/forwards Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 19:54:19 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020222143934.00981440@pop.netzero.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Lord Raiden > Sent: Friday 22 February 2002 7:53pm > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: mail aliasing/forwards > > > (sigh) Users these days. These guys are keeping me on my > feet. Ok, > here's my dilemma. I've got a user who wants all of their mail that goes > into account 1 to automatically forward to two other accounts. So, for > example, if someone send mail to "user1@domain.com" the email is > delivered > to "user1@domain.com" as well as "user2@otherdomain.com" and > "user3@yetanotherdomain.com". > > The part that worries me is if this will cause an infinite > loop in the > mail system, which I want to avoid with a passion. Is this > possible to do, > and if so, how? I've looked at the mail aliases file and I don't see > anything that resembles what I'm trying to do. I'm guessing that to send > it to more than one person you would put either commas or semi colons > between each of the addresses. But like I said, before I screwed > anything > up I wanted to find out the correct way to do this first. Thanks. > If you're using Sendmail create a .forward file in user1's home directory & enter all three email addresses on seperate lines, that should do it without causing a loop. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message