Hello Everybody !!

I want to forward mail using mailx. I want to preserve the header information as we see in gmail,yahoo etc. These are my system details :
OS : RHEL 5.5
mailx version : mailx-8.1.1-44.2.2
I tried the 'm' option but it is not working. Can anyone help me in this ??

Thanks in advance..

Hello "techie...",

If you are saying that you want to forward all mail that arrives for one particular account to another then try the following..

This is how I set mine up yesterday coincidentally using sendmail at least.. (This method lets you preserve the mail header info....)

Let's assume that the original account receiving the mail is A and the account receiving the forwarded mail B

(On my system - Centos 6.5 /home/xxxx is the user's mail directory)

Remember to substitute all occurrences A and B with the user accounts!!

1. cd /home

2. chmod 700 A

3. chmod 700 B

4. cd A

5. touch 644 .forward

6. chown A .forward

7. chgrp mail .forward

8. echo "\B, A" > .forward i.e if the user account you wish to forward the mail to is a local account simply enter the username i.e echo "\john, A" > .forward

If the user account you wish to forward the mail to is not a local account simply enter something along the lines of echo "\john@external_domain.com, A" > .forward

Hope this is what you are after....

Regards,

Rich