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To have all of your incoming mail to your Glue account
forwarded to another account do the following:
- Log in to your account using a terminal program. Enter your
account name and password when prompted.
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Get into the right directory by typing:
cd /mail/user-id for Glue (where
user-id is your Glue account name).
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Set up the .forward file by
using the pico editor or your text editor
of choice. For pico type
pico .forward
You'll get a screen similar to Pine's mail composing
screen, except without the ready-made mail header at the
top. The cursor is where it needs to be for you to type
your new e-mail address:
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Type the new e-mail address to which you want mail to be
forwarded. If forwarding mail to Mail@UMD, be sure to use the address:
user-id@mail.umd.edu where user-id is your directory ID.
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Press Control-X (the Ctrl and X keys on your
keyboard) to exit from pico (the same as in Pine)
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Type y to confirm that you
want to save the "buffers"
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Confirm that you want .forward as the name by pressing
Return or Enter
IMPORTANT!!! BE CAREFUL:
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Make sure you type the forwarding address correctly. If you
type a bad address, people who send you mail will get a
bounced mail item back and will have no way to get in touch
with you to tell you about it unless they have your phone
number.
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Don't accidentally set up a forwarding loop, where mail
from one account is forwarded to another account that
forwards it back. (You'd be amazed how often people do
this!) Mail sent into such a situation will also be bounced
back to the sender, usually with the reason "Too
many hops."
TEST IT!
Before you log out from this Unix session, send mail to
yourself here at the system you're currently logged onto (you can
use whatever e-mail program you normally use to send the mail).
Wait a minute, then check the destination account and make sure the
message arrives there. If it does, you know you've done all
this correctly.
Turning Forwarding Off and On
You can toggle this forwarding off and on by simply renaming
the .forward file ( mv is
the Unix "rename" command, issued at the Unix prompt).
Probably the simplest way is just to remove or replace the
initial "." in the filename. Just as before:
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Get into the right directory (see Step 1, above)
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Type the following
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To turn forwarding off:
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mv .forward
forward
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To turn forwarding on:
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mv forward
.forward
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Get back to your home directory:
cd
Keeping a copy on this system, or doing multiple
forwards
You can forward the mail to several addresses -- just list
them on the same line, separated by commas. If one of those
addresses is
\xxxxxxxx
(where xxxxxxx is your user-id), a copy of
each mail item will not only be forwarded to the other
address(es), but will also be kept on your own account. So to
forward a copy of each message to two different accounts AND
keep a copy on this system, you'd use something like:
myacct@highprice.net,screenname@aol.com,\xxxxxxxx
Of course, there's no point in piling up duplicate mail
unless you have a special reason for doing so....
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