Okay... here's a good question.. I type login hangup to log out of the system
here.  I would like to have mail that gets sent to me send to m-net, and
also to stay here.  My .forward reads jared@m-net so that it gets sent
there, but that handles all my mail, and I would like to get the mail
while I'm on without having to mv .forward forward or something like that.
the reason for not moving it is because I don't execute a .logout file.

Any solutions?

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Just list both addresses in the .forward file, each on its own line.
For example, your .forward file could contain the two lines

jared
jared@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us

Mail sent to you here would be delivered to your mailbox here, and
also forwarded to M-Net.

okay... I thought that having the both listed would get the message to here
sent back through, and get in some endless loop constantly forking the message

that didn't seem to work.  wolvrine sent me mail for help, and it only
sent the mail to m-net.  take a look at this .forward.  but when I replied,
it got cc:ed to here, and stayed here, and I got a copy back on m-net.

Strange.

----.forward----cut-here-----
jared@m-net
jared
----.forward----cut-here-----

It certainly appears like it should work.  I just tested it out
by running "smail -N -v25 jared", and smail claimed to be doing
the right things.  (-N turns off the actual delivery of the
mail, and is useful for debugging.  -v25 turns on debugging
messages and sets the verbosity level to 25.  This is a generally
useful level for figuring out what's going on, without getting
lots of meaningless garbage.)

One of the differences is that there is a "feature" in the m-net mailer
when it has to deal with forwarded email +and+ there is more than
one recipient. Eventhough it generates a failure, you will notice
that in the boxed area for (Ithink it's) "standard error follows" and
the "message contained below," there is *no* standard error listed,
the space thatis supposed to contain the "error" is null. 
  
That's the clue which tells you that the email +was delivered+ anyway.
  
Another difference +might be+ the mechanism used to forward mail. I don't
know if the following will/can work here, but over there:
  
      \\ name@address
  
is what's in a .forward address, well, maybe   \ \name@address  I don't
remember exactly at this moment. This sends you a copy on the local
machine and forwards a copy somewhere else. 
  
Waht I do need to know is; isthere some "trap" for email that continuously
forwards in a round-robin sort of way?

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Hmm.. I'm going to try several things here to work with any possible
changes, etc of the .forward

The "\\" hack is a smail2.5-ism.  We're running smail3, which just
takes a newline-separated list of addresses.

Well, I just tested it out.  I created a .forward file for myself
that read

        mju@m-net
        mju

and then sent mail to myself.  Sure enough, the mail was delivered to
my mailbox here, and queued up for m-net via netmeg.

Did it make any difference that the m-net address was incomplete?

Nope.

What is it with denise?

YOU are denise! Haven't you noticed yet? 

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I saw that, and thought it was strange.  Just a sed thing?  call m-net,
and j knut, and see what they did with my name.

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oh well.. I knew that something was up when I got on, and it said 'Happy
Thanksgiving'

 you should have been here last year... Mary poppins... sheesh.

I heard thet m-net last year was the best.

  Grex is the breakfast food of champions

  login:

<nephi laughs out loud at an ancient joke>

This must be the black hole of conferences. I think
nephi must be n historian at heart. Or is it "a" historian?

<orinoco is waiting for the punch line>

i am trying to forward to two addresses and reading this thread hasnt helped
+sorry+. if i put two addresses separated by newline in a .forward file, it
only forwards to the seconmd address. why is this?

I'd have thought it would work.  However, I've always used a .forward file
with just a comma-separated list on one line; it happens that this is how
the example I followed was done, & it worked.  You might try a single line
of the form
user1@something.something, user2@somewhere.somewhere

If *that* doesn't work, I'd assume that something's wrong with the address
that's not going through - since I know that this format does forward
properly.  (To test that with your current setup, you could try switching
the addresses in your .forward, I suppose.)

1 address per line is *supposed* to work, and always has for me (though I
haven't used that on grex, but grex shouldn't be different).  I tend to agree
that one of the addresses might be wrong or have a "problem" with grex, and
that it's not a .forward file problem.

I am not any good at Unix stuff.

Could somebody tell me how to create a .forward file.

 I tried the invoke editor choice in the 'file utilities' section, but
when I entered .forward as the file I want to edit, the response was
no such file exists,even though the prompt said new file names are
ok.

You can create a file in your home directory with the command (e.g.)
   pico <filename> . That is,  pico .forward   . You then enter the
e-mail addresses in the file with the editor, one line for each. 
However pico is an editor that creates a file if it does not already
exist. 

Thanks, Rane

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