divert email, like archive, possible?

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
>    The boss just asked me if I can divert all email inbound from
> a badguy to a certain account here, and save it to an alternate
> mailbox.  We have a case of a nasty divorce, where the harasser is
> elsewhere and the harassee works here.  We want to divert and save
> the messages from the harasser and not have the harassee see them.
> And we want other messages to the harassee flow normally.
>
> Thinking that the Archive feature would do the trick, I set up an
> archive ruleset for testing:
>
>    From: joeblow at colby.edu and To: jaearick at colby.edu /var/mail/a/archive
>    default  no
>
> Then I logged on as joeblow and sent a test email to myself.  Archiving
> worked beautifully -- it snagged the test message to the archive file, 
> and
> let everything else pass on.  BUT it also delivered the test message into
> my mailbox; not what I wanted in this case.  Any way to divert specific
> to/from email messages with MailScanner?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
Jeff,

I think you should use the "Non Spam Actions" rule instead of the 
archiving one:
From: joeblow at colby.edu and To: jaearick at colby.edu forward 
someone at colby.edu
default  deliver

Denis
PS: I'm not sure if you also need "delete" before the forward clause...

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