On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Spook ZA <spookza at gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 February 2011 05:41, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at 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.