From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 20:50:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD9B37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1572E43E65 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021027035010.NNOA9096.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@mac.com> for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 03:50:10 +0000 Message-ID: <3DBB6260.6030603@mac.com> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:49:52 -0700 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021021 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: Re: Sendmail .forward References: <1344.207.71.22.4.1035689022.squirrel@new.host.name> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 randy@turbowarp.net wrote: > I have tried to figure out how to use forward, but haven't gotten it to > work. Where is the forward statement supposed to be and how do I use it? > (And can I use the forward command to also forward mail to my pager?) > from forward(5): > For example, if user chris had a .forward file containing the following lines: > > chris@otherhost > \chris > > One copy of mail would be forwarded to chris@otherhost and another copy would be retained as mail for local user chris. it sounds like you want a file called $HOME/.forward that looks like: yourID@yourpager.net \your.local.mail.address -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Optimization hinders evolution. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message