#use wml::debian::template title="Email Forwarding"
<p>
-Emails to @debian.org now go through a 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 computer.
-Multiple machines participate in the forwarding to provide redudency.
+Emails to @debian.org addresses now go through a 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.
+Multiple machines participate in the forwarding to provide redudancy.
<p>
-Each of the forwarders inspects the LDAP database
+Each forwarders 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
Ignore the IFS=".." stuff in the procmail man page.
<h2>MailBox formats</h2>
-Emails can be saved to mailboxes or maildirs by using the correct lines in a
+Email can be saved to mailboxes or maildirs by using the correct lines in a
.forward file:
<p>
Mailbox format files "/debian/home/foo/Mbox"
<p>
Also, 'Exim Filter' files are deliberately turned off.
-<h2>Delivey Environment</h2>
-Some environment variables are set per-message (not quoted! Carefull!)
+<h2>Delivery Environment</h2>
+Some environment variables are set per-message (not quoted! Careful!)
It is important to note that the environment variables dealing with
addressing apply to the ENVELOPE address are are totally completely
unrelated to the actual contents of the message:
</ol>
<p>
-Such that, <i>$RECIPIENT = $LOCAL-EXTENSION@<something></i>.
+Such that, <i>$RECIPIENT = $LOCAL-$EXTENSION@<something></i>.