Subject: Re: {Q} Can pine be set to forward mail?

From: [email-masked] (The Shriminator)
Date: 11 Jul 1995 00:07:02 GMT

John Waters - @ring.com writes in comp.mail.pine:
 +  How can we set pine to forward mail to a different address? Can't find
 +  anything in the online docs. ..... unless we are really just missing it!

Yes. Just create a ".forward" file in your account and include in it the
address to which you want to forward your mail.

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 09:55:57 GMT

>address to which you want to forward your mail.
 
Half right.  PINE itself does not handle automatic mail forwarding.
PINE is only the program that you, as a user, run in order to get
access to mail (it's a "user agent" in the jargon).
 
The .forward file is handled by your computer's mail system
(typically "sendmail"), not by PINE.  That's why you won't find
much about it in PINE's documentation.