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I am using Solaris, I'm sorry but I'm not sure of the version. &nbsp;If knowing this is fundamental to providing a soloution, can somebody please tell me how I can find out?<br />
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I have formerly used something called Exceed when creating new users. &nbsp;After creating a new user I used to manually create a .forward in the new user's home directory. &nbsp;This allowed their mail to be re-directed to an Exchange email account.<br />
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However, I have recently started using a script to create new users. &nbsp;To do this, I create the .forward file in /usr/local/src/skel and then use the useradd command with the -k parameter set to /usr/local/src/skel. &nbsp;All of this takes place within the script. &nbsp;This does copy the .forward to the new user's home directory with the correct email address within it but whenever a mail is sent to the user, it is not being forwarded on. &nbsp;Rather, the mail just sits in the /var/mail directory.<br />
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What do I need to do to enable the mail to be forwarded onto the email address in the user's .forward?<br />
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I am using Solaris, I'm sorry but I'm not sure of the version.  If knowing this is fundamental to providing a soloution, can somebody please tell me how I can find out?

I have formerly used something called Exceed when creating new users.  After creating a new user I used to manually create a .forward in the new user's home directory.  This allowed their mail to be re-directed to an Exchange email account.

However, I have recently started using a script to create new users.  To do this, I create the .forward file in /usr/local/src/skel and then use the useradd command with the -k parameter set to /usr/local/src/skel.  All of this takes place within the script.  This does copy the .forward to the new user's home directory with the correct email address within it but whenever a mail is sent to the user, it is not being forwarded on.  Rather, the mail just sits in the /var/mail directory.

What do I need to do to enable the mail to be forwarded onto the email address in the user's .forward?

 

Mail Not Being Forwarded

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