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To forward your e-mail from your current Unix account to another system, create a file called .forward and put the appropriate forwarding address into it.
N: in the $HOME dir,
chmod 600 .forward
N: Gerry Boyd, who has a Unix account gboyd with the e-mail address gboyd@netcom.com, has temporarily gone to SomewhereElse where he has access to an e-mail account called gboyd. He wishes to forward all e-mail sent to gboyd@netcom.com to his SomewhereElse account, but also wants to keep a copy of each message on his Netcom account for the purpose of reading/filing messages when he returns to Netcom. Gerry Boyd's .forward file should be set up to read
gboyd,gboyd@somewhere.else.com
If userid (or alias) does not contain any '.' (dots), then it is interpreted as the name of a host in the current domain. That is why the userid "gboyd" by itself sends a copy of the e-mail to gboyd@netcom.com as well as forwarding a copy to gboyd@somewhere.else.com
Gerry Boyd
lns bin/.forward.nt .forward
sendm $USER subject text
$ mailx
"/var/mail/suntong": 1 message 1 unread
>U 1 suntong@nortelnetw Mon Jan 10 12:33 15/440 subject
Mail is left on the server un-forwarded.
rm .forward
cp bin/.forward .
sendm $USER subject text
$ mailx
"/var/mail/suntong": 1 message 1 unread
>U 1 suntong@nortelnetw Mon Jan 10 12:33 15/440 subject
$ chk-mh
msg.9BEH:Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:34:27 -0500
msg.9BEH:Subject: subject
rm .forward
ln bin/.forward.nml .forward
sendm $USER subject text
$ mailx
mailx version 5.0 Tue Jul 15 21:29:48 PDT 1997 Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/suntong": 2 messages 1 new 2 unread
U 1 suntong@nortelnetw Mon Jan 10 12:33 15/440 subject
>N 2 suntong@nortelnetw Mon Jan 10 12:45 14/430 subject
Mail is left on the server un-forwarded.
Link doesn't work for .forward, neither symbol link nor hard link.
<< 2000.01.10 Mon 12:37:00
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> I can't get my procmail going under my linux (RH6.2). The same
> configuration works fine for Solaris. Here is the error message:
asuming sendmail is the default MTA on RH x.x you should find procmail
cat /etc/sendmail.cf |grep Mlocal
You don't need a .forward file, .procmailrc is enough,
otherwise try this .forward:
|"IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -f-||exit 75 #username"
Michael Heiming
$ cat /etc/sendmail.cf |grep Mlocal
Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
Most Linux systems are set up to use procmail as the local delivery agent by default, so you should not have to set up a .forward.
I have none under Mandrake 7.1, and it works fine.
Jim Buchanan