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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:51:00 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Matthew West <mwest@cs.uct.ac.za>
To:        Leonard Chung <leonard@slip.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Procmail for e-mail forwarding?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980820164715.3355O-100000@gimli.cs.uct.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <E0z8h4X-0005sD-00@slip-3.slip.net>

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in ~/.forward:
|/usr/local/bin/procmail

in ~/.procmailrc:
:0
*^(To|cc|Resent-To):.*leonard@slip.net
! leonard@new-isp.net

This should do it, although I'd recommend you peruse the procmail examples
manpage: man procmailex

--mwest@cs.uct.ac.za
  http://www.cs.uct.ac.za

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Leonard Chung wrote:

> I have an e-mail account on a FreeBSD machine, which has an e-mail alias
> (i.e. I can be e-mailed at either leonard@slip.net or othername@slip.net).
> I am moving to another mail server, and would like to have my current
> server forward e-mail to the new one.  However, I only want messages sent
> to the leonard@slip.net address forwarded and messages sent to othername
> to remain stored on the old server as normal.
> 
> I'm thinking that a .forward and procmail would probably be the right
> solution, but I don't know a thing about procmail at all.  Can anyone help
> me with writing the ruleset?


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