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From - Thu Feb 24 13:01:29 2000
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From: John Schmidt <js@saltmine.radix.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with .forward
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:59:38 -0500
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Tony Lawrence wrote:

<snip>

> Somebody new joins the company.  Wants their mail forwarded
> to their worldnet address.  So I put that address in their
> .forward, but the ISP rejects it, saying "sorry, no UCE" -in
> other words, the ISP sees that as spam.
> 
> I'm not clear on what, if anything, I can do about that.

Instead of directly forwarding to the user, change their .forward
to pipe to an external perl script. In the script, just accept
each message on <STDIN>, parse the headers, and use the Mail::Mailer
module to remail it using their own ISP's SMTP server.

JS

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