(Latest Revision -- 08/27/2012)
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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FIRST VERSION OF FORWARD FILE
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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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SECOND VERSION OF FORWARD FILE
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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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