At 8:55 AM -0600 3/14/01, Garrie Burr wrote:
>We've used the 'TELL LISTSERV /FORWARD emailaddress' command for the last few
>years to forward incoming mail from a person's old account on our VM System
>(where listserve resides) to their new email account on a different system.
>...
>What happens next:  Not only is their mail forwarded on, but we find that all
>the other mail on our VM System that hadn't been forwarded ALSO gets forwarded
>on to where it had previously been designated to go in the FORWARD FILE.
>...

I assume you mean all the other mail for *this* particular person, right?  That's how
forwarding works.  Periodically, listserv transfers all the mail from the person's reader and sends it on the the address specified in the FORWARD FILE file.

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