Nope...  That's the really screwy thing.  It's forwarding all mail in the VM
spool whether it belongs to that person or not.  If a person does not have
forwarding set up in LISTSERV's FORWARD FILE then no action is taken, if a
person has forwarding set-up in the FORWARD FILE then reactivating the
forwarding on any account is pushing the mail on to the designated addresses.

Until we come up with what's doing this, I've set-up a PUSHMAIL EXEC that
deactivates and then resets the forwarding on a dummy account.  We'll have VM
autolog the account every fifteen minutes or so to activate PUSHMAIL.  It's
working, but I'd still like to know how to fix it more 'officially'.

--Garrie









Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> on 03/14/2001 10:07:39 AM

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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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