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 Message 166 
 mark lewis to Paul Hayton 
 ROUTE.FE 
 11 Sep 15 11:59:40 
 
11 Sep 15 21:23, you wrote to me:

 ml>> yes but you'll still have that netmail containing the original /1
 ml>> destination address... on the /1 machine, you would need a
 ml>> ""forwarder"" which either forwards the mail as a new message to your
 ml>> /100 OR the forwarder changes the destination address of /1 to that
 ml>> of /100 so that it will be sent from /1 to /100 where you really want
 ml>> it...

 PH> I thought that is what the ROUTE-TO would in essence do?

route-to is only for routing in-transit netmail... you need something like
netmgr to rewrite the destination like might be done if you were on vacation
and wanted your mail re-addressed to your point that you have on your laptop
with you...

 PH> I can see there are also FORWARD-TO statements but they only apply for
 PH> 'in transit' netmail of which I am unsure mail arriving at my HUB
 PH> system would qualify as.

forward-to and forward-for are also for in-transit netmail, IIRC... you use
them to determine which systems you will forward mail to/for...

 PH> Only one way to find out I guess. :-)

true... and the docs are also very helpful... pages 119-121 should have the
detailed information you seek ;)

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