Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Leonard Chung <leonard@slip.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Procmail for e-mail forwarding? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818084857.19260A-100000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <E0z8h4X-0005sD-00@slip-3.slip.net>
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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 How 'bout a little ride through your own world? http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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