#use wml::db.d.o title="Email Forwarding"
+#use wml::vbar
+
+<dsatoc/>
<p>
-Emails to @debian.org addresses now go through a LDAP distributed email system.
+Emails to @debian.org addresses now go through an LDAP distributed email system.
This system uses the forwarding field in the LDAP directory to route mail
-without passing it through a users .forward file on a single host.
+without passing it through a user's .forward file on a single host.
Multiple machines participate in the forwarding to provide redundancy.
<p>
-Each forwarders inspects the LDAP database
+Each forwarder inspects the LDAP database
to see if foo@debian.org has forwarding set to an address, if so the <i>envelope
to address</i> is rewritten and the message redirected to the new address.
Otherwise the message is relayed to master.debian.org for processing by the
-users .forward files. If email forwarding is setup then .forward files are
+user's .forward files. If email forwarding is setup then .forward files are
<b>NOT</b> considered. Extension addresses (foo-lists) are always routed
directly to master for processing.
<p>
The email forwarding can be easily reconfigured using GnuPG:
<pre>
-echo "emailforward: foo@bar.com" | gpg --clearsign | mail change@db.debian.org
+echo "emailforward: foo@bar.com" | gpg --clearsign | mail changes@db.debian.org
</pre>
or by visiting <a href="https://db.debian.org/login.html">db.debian.org</a>