Subject: Re: Question: How to set a Forwarding Address - Pine for VMS

From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:42:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (Jan Lethen: EdServ Intern x1885) writes:
 
>here's what I want to do.  I want to have Pine automatically forward all my
>mail to a different account, a different system, a different address.  How do I
>do this?  I'm not sure that the command would be specific to VMS Pine, it may
>be the same for all ...
 
I am answering in the context of Yehavi's VMS port of PINE.  If you
are asking the question in a PMDF context, you will have to get the
correct answer from someone else.
 
PINE is a mail client, it does not process incoming mail until you
execute it.
 
On VAX/VMS systems, incoming mail is handled by the VMS MAIL system.
If you want your incoming mail forwarded automatically, you have to
set the VMS MAIL routines to do it for you.  PINE cannot do this, as
it does not see the incoming mail until you log on and execute PINE!
 
>From the VMS system prompt, issue the MAIL command, and at the
MAIL> prompt, issue a SET FORWARD command.
 
You will need to know the correct format for mail addresses on your
VMS MAIL system.  On mine it would be SMTP%"[email-masked]"
for an Internet recipient.
 
Hope this helps.

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From: [email-masked] (Jan Lethen: EdServ Intern x1885)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:27:42 GMT

Hi everyone,
	I've looked through the faq and the user guide and couldn't find the
answer.  I played with fcc settings in the pine.pinerc file.  All to no avail
...
here's what I want to do.  I want to have Pine automatically forward all my
mail to a different account, a different system, a different address.  How do I
do this?  I'm not sure that the command would be specific to VMS Pine, it may
be the same for all ...

Any help much appreciated.
Thanks!
Jan

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Guptill)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 95 23:23:32 GMT

>for an Internet recipient.

I'm not sure how everyone else's systems are configured, but on our
VAXcluster, you need to do some quoting to set forwarding correctly.  For
example, the command I would use to forward my mail to my lenin account is:

	set forward "in%""[email-masked]"""

This is under VMS 5.5 running PMDF with the free version of Pine.  (The PMDF
version is not installed on my system.)  Your mileage may vary.

	Tom
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