Re: [UUG/MLUG] A question:

[Ryan Dooley <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> The only question on this, is how long does it take to forward your email?

Well... depends on the load of the machine, but usually microseconds after
recieving the mail intended for you... as sendmail attempts a delivery
into your mailbox, it checks for the existance for a ~/.forward ... if
such a file exists, your mail gets queued to be resent to the address in
your ~/.forward.

Similiar process if you're in /etc/aliases under another email address.
If you are, sendmail skips (I belive) the looking for ~/.forward.

		cheers,
                  --ryan

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