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Operating Systems AIX Forwarding already received mail? Post 302313065 by DennisC31 on Monday 4th of May 2009 02:13:38 PM
Old 05-04-2009
Forwarding already received mail?
Greetings to all of you. I am a tad desperate here. I have found MANY articles scattered across the internet from google searches and unix.com searches for how to forward mail that say:

Create a ~/.forward file and put XXXX in it.

This is not what I need to do.

We have bunch of users who sendmail mistakenly delivered mail LOCALy to after an upgrade to AIX 5.3. For instance, a message sent to johndoe goes to /var/spool/mail/johndoe, then John can run mail from a command line and read his mail in /var/spool/mail/johndoe and then it gets transferred to /home/johndoe/mail.

The problem WAS that we needed our customized sendmail.cf file and the upgrade overwrote it. So... Now I have to find a way to forward all of these reports and such that were delivered locally out to the real addresses on other servers. Ie. the mail above to johndoe should now go to johndoe@dennis.com.

How on earth can this be done? I can see the mail out there and maybe I could write a script that will send out the messages but wow that will be a huge pain. Some of the messages have uuencoded attachments that I would have to work out some fancy perl script to extract and mail.

I can not be the only unix guy who has ever wanted to "convert" the messages in /var/spool/mail to something else and forward them on.

If noone has any ideas, can you point me to a pop daemon for AIX that I can install and then use to pull mail out and forward it on?

Many, many thanks. And if I find that magical fix 5 minutes after writing this, I will post it.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

forward

FORWARD(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							FORWARD(5)

NAME

     forward -- mail forwarding instructions

DESCRIPTION

     The .forward file contains a list of mail addresses or programs that the user's mail should be redirected to.  If the file is not present,
     then no mail forwarding will be done.  Mail may also be forwarded as the standard input to a program by prefixing the line with the normal
     shell pipe symbol (|).  If arguments are to be passed to the command, then the entire line should be enclosed in quotes.  For security rea-
     sons, the .forward file must be owned by the user the mail is being sent to, or by root, and the user's shell must be listed in /etc/shells.

     For example, if a .forward file contained the following lines:

	   nobody@NetBSD.org
	   "|/usr/bin/vacation nobody"

     Mail would be forwarded to <nobody@NetBSD.org> and to the program /usr/bin/vacation with the single argument nobody.

     If a local user address is prefixed with a backslash character, mail is delivered directly to the user's mail spool file, bypassing further
     redirection.

     For example, if user chris had a .forward file containing the following lines:

	   chris@otherhost
	   chris

     One copy of mail would be forwarded to chris@otherhost and another copy would be retained as mail for local user chris.

FILES

     $HOME/.forward  The user's forwarding instructions.

SEE ALSO

     aliases(5), mailaddr(7), sendmail(8)

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