Mail Forwarding Help

Suppose you have a login on a unix machine called:

pascal.csustan.edu

Let's say your login name on pascal is:

joeuser

In that case, people can send e-mail to you by addressing you
as:

joeuser@pascal.csustan.edu

But suppose you have another e-mail address.  Let's say the
other e-mail address is:

jjuser@some.where.com

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Suppose you would like to read all your e-mail at the second
address:

jjuser@some.where.com

What can you do?

You can create a file named:

.forward

in your home directory.  (Notice that the first character of
the filename is a period.)  Put the following single line of
text in the file:

jjuser@some.where.com

After you do that, all the e-mail that people send to:

joeuser@pascal.csustan.edu

will be forwarded instead to:

jjuser@some.where.com


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Now, this may not be exactly what you want.  You may want to
have the option of reading the mail on pascal OR at the other
e-mail site.  In that case, put (only) the following two lines
in your .forward file:

\joeuser
jjuser@some.where.com

After you do that, all the e-mail that people send to:

joeuser@pascal.csustan.edu

will be available for you to read when you log into pascal as
joeuser, and also a copy of each of those messages will be
forwarded to the address:

jjuser@some.where.com


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A FINAL WORD ABOUT FORWARDING FROM THE CS DEPARTMENT SYSTEM
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If you have an account on the CS Department Lab Macs, then you
can login to any of them, make a .forward file as described
above, and then all mail sent to you at any of the Macs will
be forwarded.

For example, if you login to turing and make a .forward file that
contains the line:

mksmith@bar.foo.org

then when mail is sent to you at pascal, ada, chomsky, or any
of the CS Lab Macs, it will be forwarded to:

mksmith@bar.foo.org

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