Re: [cobalt-users] Email Forwarding with Copy

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001 cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi shimi,
> 
> > In the user's home directory, create a filed called ".forward" (without
> > the quotes, with the dot)
> > and inside it write the email to forward to.
> 
> This won't leave the e-mail on the server, AFAIK.
> 
> Take a look over here: http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html.
> 
> Under step 4, Note 2 reads:
> 
> Note 2: if you want a virtual address to resolve to more than one
>     real address, you need to do it indirectly.  Have the virtual address
>     resolve to a local alias, then have the local alias resolve to the
>     desired set of addresses.  For example, in the virtual user table:
> 
> joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx    localjoe
> 
> then in the aliases file:
> localjoe:joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> You'd want 'localjoe' to read something in the line of:
> localjoe:    localuser, joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> This should do the trick.
> 
> Good luck... Nico


 I meant that this is the directory he should search. :-)

 I am aware that you have to type every mailbox you wanna mail get into.
 You can even forward to 10 different ones.

- shimi.