Re: Sendmail Urgent!!!
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 03:44 PM 11/25/99 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki_Mart=EDnez?= wrote:
> > I have a Debian server with sendmail with only one domain and i need that
> >ALL inbound and Outbound mail ALSO go to a backup account e-mail.
>
> You could put a .forward file in each user's directory that wants this done
> with the lines:
>
> real_email_account@domain.com
> backup_email@domain.com
>
> AFAIK, this will not create an infinite mail loop. My memory is foggy on
> this but you might have to put a \ or some other escape character in front
> of the local email address to ward off the mail loop.
\real_email_account@domain.com, backup_email@domain.com
On one line. The "\" prevents mail loops.
This is a non-scalable idea, however. Something involving "virtusers"
(which I have never used)?
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