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From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
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To: Leonard Chung <leonard@slip.net>
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Subject: Re: Procmail for e-mail forwarding?
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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?

I'm not sure I understand, but you can simply do:
echo 'newname@new.server' > ~leonard/.forward

This will create a .forward file telling to forward all mail arriving at
leonard@slip.net to newname@new.server (which you should replace by the
new server name...)
 
> Thanks,

Hope this helps...

Spidey

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