forward -- mail forwarding instructions
The .forward file contains a list of mail addresses or programs that the
user's mail should be redirected to. If the file is not present, then no
mail forwarding will be done. Mail may also be forwarded as the standard
input to a program by prefixing the line with the normal shell pipe symbol
(|). If arguments are to be passed to the command, then the entire
line should be enclosed in quotes. For security reasons, the .forward
file must be owned by the user the mail is being sent to, or by root, and
the user's shell must be listed in /etc/shells.
For example, if a .forward file contained the following lines:
[email protected]
"|/usr/bin/vacation nobody"
Mail would be forwarded to <[email protected]> and to the program
/usr/bin/vacation with the single argument nobody.
If a local user address is prefixed with a backslash character, mail is
delivered directly to the user's mail spool file, bypassing further redirection.
For example, if user chris had a .forward file containing the following
lines:
chris@otherhost
\chris
One copy of mail would be forwarded to chris@otherhost and another copy
would be retained as mail for local user chris.
$HOME/.forward The user's forwarding instructions.
aliases(5), mailaddr(7), sendmail(8)
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