This bit of text is from " man mail " on DU 3.2D
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The action of mail can be modified in two ways by manipulating
/usr/spool/mail/user:
+ The default permission assignment for other users is read-only.
If you change this permission assignment to read/write or to All
Permissions Denied, the system preserves the file, even when it is
empty, in order to maintain the desired permissions; you will not be able to
remove the file.
+ You can edit the file to contain the following as its first line:
Forward to person
This causes all messages sent to user to be sent to person instead.
The Forward to feature is especially useful for sending all of a
person's mail to a particular machine in a network environment.
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I read this as meaning if the file /usr/spool/mail/joe has a single line
saying :-
Forward to fred
Then joe's mail will be sent to fred ?
However I always get a bounce when sending mail to joe saying
/usr/spool/mail/joe : Permission denied !
Irrespective of the permissions on /usr/spool/mail/joe
Anybody any ideas on this one ?
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Received on Mon May 13 1996 - 19:52:00 NZST