rerouting mail after a timeout

[Guy Riddle]

) Many users here do most of their work on Suns, using the central vaxes
) only for reading mail and netnews.  I've gotten quite a few requests
) from some users wondering if it's possible to change their aliases to
) route their mail to their Suns (since this would save them the trouble
) of having to manually copy saved mail messages from the vaxes to the
) Suns) yet be assured that if they turn off their Suns for a long period
) of time without telling anyone (e.g. to go on vacation) that their mail
) will then be automatically rerouted to a vax rather than being returned
) to the sender.

At the cost of some inefficiency, you could normally route the users
mail to their VAX-addresses where those users that wished their mail delivered
to their SUNs could create a .forward file on the VAX to route their mail
to their SUN-addressese.

They could then remove the .forward when they went on vacation, leaving
their mail on the VAX (or modify it to run their mail through the infamous
vacation(1) program).

		=== Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories Liberty Corner ===