forward mails from sendmail + mimedefang on two unix boxes

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Published on 2012-03-19T00:51:42Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 2:06 UTC
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I am not a unix expert, more like a novice. I have one user account replicated on two unix boxes receiving same mails on both boxes for fail over. Sendmail has mimedefang utility running to process these mails. After all the processing is complete, more like weeding the spam, viruses etc. I need to forward these mails coming to the same account on both boxes to goto a central mailbox on MS Exchange for this account. Problem is I am using .forward file hence both unix boxes forward the mail after processing. I just want to be able to ignore one of the two mails.

Has anyone tried something similar? any directions? Please?

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