SPUG: Need a transparent email forwarding utility

Tim Maher tim at consultix-inc.com
Tue Sep 16 10:30:06 PDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:53:22AM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
> Nigh 2008-09-16 08:09 -0700, Tim Maher rambled:
> 
> > > The forwarding depends on the mail system for System A. On most unixy
> > > systems, you can put a .forward file in the user's homedir with the
> > > address to forward email to. Yahoo and Gmail have a forwarding feature
> > > buried somewhere in their user preferences web form.

I have no problem requesting the forwarding--from my interface to tne odious
"Outlook Web Access" system on System A.

> In your .forward file you can pipe it to a program.  Shouldn't be hard
> to write a small perl program to read in the mail on stdin, replacing
> the '^(To|From|Reply-To):' and pipe it back to 'sendmail -t'
> Brian Hatch                  Cat.  The other white meat.

I don't have shell access on System A.

TIA,
-Tim
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