I am using sedmail and .forward for forwarding list. But the problem is there when I sent mail to a particular contact that contains a list and me also in this list I got a copy of this mail. I want stop it in my server when sender match to one of the receiver of that list, it would be send to others member but not matches sender.

Please help me if you guys completed this task

Best Regards.

Hello,

I believe that if you put an entry in the .forward file containing a backslash and the primary account name this should prevent the loop that you describe, thus:

Mail recipient contactA .forward file
\contactA, contactB, contactC, contactD

Mail recipient contactB .forward file
\contactB, contactA, contactC, contactD

Mail recipient contactC .forward file
\contactC, contactA, contactB, contactD

Mail recipient contactD .forward file
\contactD, contactA contactB, contactC

Regards,

Rawcous....

Hello Rawcous,

Thanks for prompt effort. My configuration so similar with your suggestion but my problem is that when I sent mail to group (like contactA) and me self contactB and contactA has .forward file configure like
\contactA, contactB, contactC, contactD me also received a copy for this mail by generally. I want to prevent this if anyone send mail to a group and he also be be member of that group he will not got mail that sent by him...

If you have any way to prevent it will be very much helpful for me

Thanks
Mahedi

Hey,

Please define exactly what you mean by A, B, C, D are members of the same group - please explain how you have set this up.

Just to make sure my understanding is correct, you are saying.

If an email arrives at mailbox A, it is automatically forwarded to B,C,D

and

because of your .forward rules B,C,D are then each automatically forwarding a copy of the email back to A?

Thanks,

Rawcous!

Hello again...,

I've got a feeling that this link may be what you are referring to: http://www.bga.org/~lessem/psyc5112/usail/mail/lists/

If you are going to use the suggested approach then remember to remove the .forward entries from each of the respective ~ home folders / directories and also run the newaliases command after making any amendments to the /etc/aliases file.

Regards,

Rawcous!!!