Re: .forward files?

Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:04:17 +0100

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On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 05:23:13AM -0600, John K. wrote:
> Hello. I'm having a mail forwarding problem. My normal email account is
> 'johnmaKintosh.com'. I'm trying to setup 'john-pagermaKintosh.com' to
> forward to 'mypagersemailaddress.com'. I was using a .forward file that
> contained 'john-pager mypagersemailaddress.com' but it seems to recieve
> both messages from 'john' and 'john-pager'. Any ideas?

1st) hostnames are case insensitive. No point in using a capital K

2nd) If you set up a .forward file, that implies that "-" is your
     recipient_delimiter?
     That would explain why both mail to john and john-pager ends up
     being processed by john's .forward.

3rd) If you setup another account johnpager and give that the .forward
     everything should work as expected.

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