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7/26/02

Task:
14. Setup your individual user accounts to automatically forward all email sent to the local user to go to the users' preferred email address. Do not accomplish this using an alias (that's a hint).

Unsuccessful attempts:
Forwarding using a .forward file in each user's home directory. The forwarding did not work with the .forward file alone.

Nor did adding a line to /etc/shells
/SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/
make .forward work


What worked:
Putting a .procmailrc file in each user's account did work.

I su ed to root, put a .procmailrc file in each home directory, chown and chgrpso that it would belong to each team member and entered each of their forwarding addresses in their own file.

HOWEVER, I also had to make entries to the .procmailrc file for all the group aliases too, otherwise those would still go to user@air.nesser.com