Setting up forwarding of your e-mail
If you prefer to read your e-mail from one place, you can set up forwarding
on your various accounts to send it all to that one location. All
your CS instructors are going to send to your CS account, so if you don't
regularly read mail there, you should set up forwarding. Be
sure you test that your forwarding works, by sending yourself
an e-mail - otherwise you're in even worse shape than before as all mail
sent to you will bounce!
Note: Forwarding will only redirect new mail to the account specified;
it does not forward mail that is already in your mail box to the named
account.
Caution: do not set up circular forwarding - route everything
to one account and nothing from that one!
Otherwise you'll fill up mailboxes and get in deep doo-doo with various
system administrators, and perhaps lose your account privileges.
Forwarding from your CS account to somewhere else:
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create a file called .forward
(Note: the dot is very important)
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in the file put one line
\address-to-send-to (Note:
the backlash is very important)
example: \mmr-grd@cs.rit.edu
will send mail to mmr-grd on the CS systems
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send yourself mail to your cs
account to see if the forwarding is working
This should also work on grace.
Forwarding from your VMS account to somewhere else:
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type MAIL,
and when it responds with the prompt EMAIL> type
SET FORWARD address-to-send-to
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check the forwarding by typing SHOW
FORWARD
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type EXIT to
leave mail
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send yourself mail at your vms address and see if
the fowarding is working