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> It was discussed that the mail system was ignoring the .forward
> file occasionally. Various users seem to average about one
> message per month placed in the original mailbox instead of being
> forwarded.
Here on NCF if you mail to a userid with a leading backslash, the
.forward is ignored. E.g. mail '\aa610' ends up in the original
mailbox...
>From xx610@freenet.carleton.ca Mon Nov 24 15:38:14 1997
Received: from freenet4.carleton.ca (freenet4.carleton.ca [134.117.136.24])
by freenet1.carleton.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA03286
for <\aa610@freenet.carleton.ca>; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:38:13 -0500 (EST)
Received: (xx610@localhost) by freenet4.carleton.ca (8.8.3/NCF-Sun-Client) id PA
A16816 for \aa610; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:37:54 -0500 (EST)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:37:54 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199711242037.PAA16816@freenet4.carleton.ca>
From: idallen@freenet.carleton.ca
Subject: test slash
To: idallen@freenet.carleton.ca
hello
--
-IAN! Ian! D. Allen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada idallen@freenet.carleton.ca
Home Page on the Ottawa FreeNet: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa610/
College professor at: http://www.algonquinc.on.ca/~alleni/
Board Member, TeleCommunities CANADA http://www.tc.ca/
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