.forward File Functionality By Ed, 12-12-99 www.narced.com/linux On machines that don't have procmail installed, there are still a few tricks that the .forward file can do. Caught these by accident while flipping through the O'Reilly Sendmail book: To forward mail to another account: username@another_domain.com To forward mail to another account and keep a local copy: \username, username@another_domain.com To deliver mail to the inbox and put a copy in another file: \username /home/username/mail/archive To pipe mail into a script or program: \username, "|/home/username/pager_script.sh" NOTE: You don't need quotes here, but put them just to be safe. They ARE required if the program/script has to take command-line arguments.