[PLUG] Forwarding Mail

[drew wymore]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   I've not done this before so I'm ignorant of how to proceed. Your advice,
> suggestions, and directions are solicited.
>
>   My wife's going to visit her parents for a week and would like her email
> forwarded there. All mail comes in to the server where it it placed in
> /var/spool/mail/<hername>. Since she works on her laptop which communicates
> with the server and the rest of the world via the wireless portion of the
> LAN, her copy of seamonkey queries the mail server on a regular basis and
> moves any waiting mail to her laptop.
>
>   Ergo, I assume that I need to put the local address and the forwarding
> address somewhere on the server. Using postfix here, but don't know in what
> file to make the changes.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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Rich,
Will your wife be taking the laptop with her? Does she want the mail
forwarded to another email address? Sorry for such elemental questions but I
was unsure of the context.

Drew-