Subject: How do you "Bounce" e-mail

From: [email-masked] (Daniel M. Gonnella)
Date: 22 Jul 1994 02:00:44 -0700

I am going to Hawaii for two weeks in early August and was wondering how 
to bounce incoming internet e-mail.  I am going to use my CompuServe 
address as CompuServe has a POP in Hawaii.  Can this be done with Pine?

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 00:09:54 +0800 (TPE)

> address as CompuServe has a POP in Hawaii.  Can this be done with Pine?
	Then again....maybe the subject didn't say it all.....
	
	Sounds like what you are looking for is a "forward" ability.
You want email that is coming into one account to be "forwarded" to
another account.  That is not the function of a UA such as pine.
In systems that utilize sendmail you'd add a .forward file in your
$HOME directory.  That file would contain the email address you want
your email "forwarded" to.  If you wish a copy retained on that
system you'd enter a \ followed by your user name.

e.g.

\daniel
[email-masked]

				Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Steven King [Really!])
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 14:36:27 GMT

>address as CompuServe has a POP in Hawaii.  Can this be done with Pine?

You don't want to bounce mail, you want to forward it.  (Okay, terminology
difference.) Ideally, the transport agent should do this for you without
any intervention from Pine or any other user agent. 

If you're on a Unix system you can create a ".forward" file in your home
directory which should redirect all your mail to a specified address.  If
you're on some other system or are using a restricted shell, ask your
sysadmin the best way to go about it on your system. 

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From: [email-masked] (Richard Barber)
Date: 26 Jul 1994 01:45:10 -0700

Steven King [Really!] ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (Daniel M. Gonnella) publicly declared:
: >I am going to Hawaii for two weeks in early August and was wondering how 
: >to bounce incoming internet e-mail.  I am going to use my CompuServe 
: >address as CompuServe has a POP in Hawaii.  Can this be done with Pine?

: You don't want to bounce mail, you want to forward it.  (Okay, terminology
: difference.) Ideally, the transport agent should do this for you without
: any intervention from Pine or any other user agent. 

: If you're on a Unix system you can create a ".forward" file in your home
: directory which should redirect all your mail to a specified address.  If

That bounces it I think.  Forwarding (terminology blah) cmiiw is like 
mailing something from you to someone.  While bouncing is like 
redirecting the To: line to someone else.  Some newsreaders have a bounce 
command that mails an article to someone else and it looks like it was 
From: the original poster, not the bouncer.  who knows.
-rick 

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From: [email-masked] (Cimage)
Date: 28 Jul 1994 16:05:42 GMT

If your mail host is unix based, you can use a .forward to specify where
your mail should be forwarded to.

In addition, and again for Unix hosts, there is a program called
"vacation" that in addition to setting up your .forward file will set up
an auto-reply to the sender to let them know that you are off-site and
will be replying to your mail later.

See your local man pages for more info.

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From: Colette Monaghan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 09:50:15 +0100 (BST)

I was recently asked about this feature and tried it out but 
unfortunately it won't work on our setup. We use nfs here and so mail 
comes into a mail server and is exported to the relevant user machine. 

Do you know of any other method that will work in such a situation? 

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