Using .forward files and retaining a local copy

If your read your email on a platform able to utilise dot forward files (.forward), it’s useful to know that aside from adding a forward address to bounce mail onwards seamlessly, you can retain a copy at the original receiving host by constructing your .forward as below, where I show an excerpt from my system.

#cat .forward
\localusername
somebody@somehost.com

#

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