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