HP-UX Mailing Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering Sendmail
Creating Sendmail Aliases
Chapter 2 67
Forwarding Your Own Mail with a .forward File
You can redirect your own mail by creating a .forward file in your home
directory. If a .forward file exists in your home directory and is owned
by you, Sendmail redirects mail addressed to you to the addresses that
the .forward file contains.
A .forward file can contain anything that appears on the right side of an
alias definition, including programs and files. (See Table 2-1 earlier in
this chapter.) The following is an example of a .forward file owned by
user alice on host chicago:
alice@miami, alice@toronto, \alice, mycrew
Mail sent to alice@chicago will be delivered to alice’s accounts on
hosts miami and toronto, and to her account on local host chicago. It
will also be delivered to all the recipients of the mailing list mycrew,
which must be defined in the local aliases database or in the :include
file on host chicago.
The aliases database is read before a .forward file. The .forward file is
read only if the user’s name is not defined as an alias or if an alias
expands to the user’s name.