Hi all, I'm just poking thru our previous sysadmin's user adding script and saw reference to a ~/.forward file containing the users email address. Any idea what it might be for? It's a tricky one to Google ;-)
Thanx,
Russell Smithies
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On 2 February 2011 05:41, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
Any idea what it might be for?
Procmail...
If a mail message gets sent to the user with a .forward file, the message will be forwarded to all email addresses in the .forward file. Try Google for: unix mail .forward
Regards, Andy.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Spook ZA spookza@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 February 2011 05:41, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
Any idea what it might be for?
Procmail...
If a mail message gets sent to the user with a .forward file, the message will be forwarded to all email addresses in the .forward file. Try Google for: unix mail .forward
It's also useful for systems installed with sendmail and a non-qualified hostname. Even if you have a "smarthost" set up in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file, for such a host, the mail would still wind up delivered locally. A .forward is a very useful way for a user to set that mail to get passed along somewhere else. Using a ".forward" is also built into the various "vacation" programs, and it's a good way to set email for a former user to get bounced somewhere else.
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Smithies, Russell wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: "Smithies, Russell" Russell.Smithies@agresearch.co.nz Subject: [CentOS] ~/.forward file?
Hi all, I'm just poking thru our previous sysadmin's user adding script and saw reference to a ~/.forward file containing the users email address. Any idea what it might be for? It's a tricky one to Google ;-)
Hi Russell. So which user's email address are you talking about? The email addy of the newly created account, or the email address of the previous sys admin?
Regards,
Keith
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I'm just poking thru our previous sysadmin's user adding script and saw reference to a ~/.forward file containing the users email address. Any idea what it might be for? It's a tricky one to Google ;-)
The ancient art of Google-fu takes many years to perfect.
But sometimes the most mundane conjurations are the most enlightening.
"what is a linux .forward file for" nets many good results, but they are mostly discussions. For true enlightenment, however, the path is the most difficult because it appears to be so outwardly easy:
".forward file"
;)
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