Re: [ILUG] The .forward file

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 10 May 2000 - 19:04:27 IST

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> I want to pipe it into a script that will filter it.. and echo
> unwanted emails to /dev/null whilst forwarding the rest to a different
> email account.

Procmail will be able to do this for you; you almost definitely won't
need to write your own script. Procmail can either be integrated into
the mail delivery system on your machine, or run "standalone" by each
user. Either way, it's very powerful, and well worth-while.

Colm

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The possibilities are...  well, not endless, but pretty damn large.

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