Subject: setting forwarding address

From: [email-masked] (JOHN BARR)
Date: 12 JAN 96 21:43:41 GMT

I'm new to Pine.  In other versions of email I have used there is
a way to set a default forwarding address, to automatically forward
all received mail to another address.

I can't find a way to do this in Pine.

What did I miss?

Thanks for any help.

John Barr
[email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:09:51 +0000 (GMT)

The function you are after is nothing to do with Pine (or any other mail 
reader, for that matter).  These are programs for reading mail *after* it 
has been delivered into your mailbox folder.

What you need to be looking at is the delivery mechanism itself, and in 
particular how to persuade it to redirect the arriving mail.  This is 
*not* Pine but, usually, a system program called "sendmail".

Try looking through the man page for sendmail for the section about 
".forward" files.  These are what you need to use in order to redirect 
arriving mail.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Tommy Quitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:43:34 +0200

On 12 Jan 1996, JOHN BARR wrote:

> Date: 12 JAN 96 21:43:41 GMT 
> From: JOHN BARR <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: setting forwarding address 
> 

If you are Using Pine for Unix and SendMail, try using a .forward file, 
and spcify there the address you wish to forward your messages to.
More documentation on .forward in "man elm".
Good Luck :)
Tommy
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:59:58 +0000 (GMT)

> More documentation on .forward in "man elm".

...But of course, there is no guarantee that Elm (an alternative mailer 
to Pine) is installed on their system!

The "official" place to read about mail forwarding would be in the man 
page for the software that actually _does_ it: the mail delivery agent.  
Our system, like most UNIX machnes, uses "sendmail" as the mail delivery 
system.  So a "man sendmail" is more certain to be there.  (But you'll 
have to skim through some guff first in order to reach the bit about 
forwarding; look for mention of a ".forward" file.)

Cheers,

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From: Byrg Bonnelycke <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 20:54:44 -0500

Hi:
You must: 
1)  make and edit a file called ".forward" in your home directory;
2)  put the COMPLETE Internet address of the receiving person
    on one line in your new .forward file;
3)  you may put as many forwarding addresses as you wish into 
    your .forward file;  BUT ONLY ONE ADDRESS PER LINE!
4)  the incoming message will also go into one of your own 
    Pine folders, depending on if/how you are using the Unix
    filter()  function.       q.v.   ;-)
5)  if you're not using the filter()  function, then the incoming mail
    will go into your INBOX folder (provided that you have not changed 
    the INBOX folder as the destination folder for un-filtered 
    incoming mail).
Greetings,   Byrg
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From: Tommy Quitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:43:34 +0200