Subject: Forwarding mail to new address

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:54:29 -0400

My company recently subscribed to AOL for business purposes. My question to
you: is there a way to forward mail from my old e-mail address to my new AOL
address and still be able to cancel my old subscriber?   If you could help us
out I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:59:56 -0400 (EDT)

> address and still be able to cancel my old subscriber?   If you could help us
 
It depends on what your original ISP is willing to do for customers who
jump ship and go to other ISPs.  If the former customer requests it, we
put an alias in our /etc/aliases file pointing at the person's new e-mail
address.  The alias stays in place for three months to give the former
customer's correspondents time to catch onto the new address. 
 
A few other ISPs I know of do something similar, but not most.  On most
services, after you close the account any mail sent to your old address
gets returned to sender with a "User Unknown" error message.
 
If your original ISP isn't willing to close your account but forward mail
to your new account, then consider leaving the old account in place for a
few months to give your correspondents time to get used to the change.  If
the old account is on a UNIX host, you can put a ".forward" file in your
home directory to forward mail to your new account. 
 
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From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:04:11 -0400 (EDT)

> address and still be able to cancel my old subscriber?   If you could help us

If your old e-mail address was to a Unix machine, create a file call 
".forward" with your new AOL address.

--- Jean Pierre