Document forward(1) better.

PR:		docs/10126
Submitted by:	Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
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jkoshy 1999-02-17 03:39:39 +00:00
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $Id$
.\" $Id: forward.5,v 1.2 1997/03/07 03:28:00 jmg Exp $
.\"
.Dd July 2, 1996
.Dt FORWARD 5
@ -67,6 +67,22 @@ and to the program
.Pa /usr/bin/vacation
with the single argument
.Ar nobody .
.Pp
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.
.Pp
For example, if user chris had a
.Nm .forward
file containing the following lines:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
chris@otherhost
\echris
.Ed
.Pp
One copy of mail would be forwarded to
.Ar chris@otherhost
and another copy would be retained as mail for local user chris.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width $HOME/.forward -compact
@ -75,5 +91,6 @@ with the single argument
The user's forwarding instructions.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr aliases 5 ,
.Xr mailaddr 7 ,
.Xr sendmail 8