Subject: .forward file (how to?)

From: [email-masked] (Matthew Koenig)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:28:34 GMT

does anyone know what line to write in the <.forward> file so that all
email from one account will automatically be forwarded to another
account?

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:46:48 -0400 (EDT)

> email from one account will automatically be forwarded to another
 
Assuming you're on a UNIX system using Sendmail as the MTA, for a simple
redirect from one account to another the .forward file should contain only
the e-mail address to which messages should be forwarded.  For example, if
the user "jdoe" wants to forward mail from his old college account at
[email-masked] to his new business account at [email-masked]:

o In his home directory on diploma.mill.com, jdoe creates a text file
  called ".forward".
o The file contains the single line "[email-masked]" (without the
  quotes).
o The file must be owned by jdoe (it will be if he creates it).
o The file must be world readable (chmod a+r .forward).
 
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From: [email-masked] (Christopher Morrone)
Date: 17 Apr 1996 04:54:03 GMT

Matthew Koenig ([email-masked]) wrote:
: does anyone know what line to write in the <.forward> file so that all
: email from one account will automatically be forwarded to another
: account?

The email address of the account to send it to.  Thats it! :)

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From: [email-masked] (David Ishee)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 18:43:42 -0600

> email from one account will automatically be forwarded to another

Create a .forward file in your home directory with one line that is
the address of where you want it forwarded: 

[email-masked]

If you want to get more fancy with filtering look at

http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/mailbots.html 

David

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From: "Ashish S. Nadkarni" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:51:24 -0500 (GMT)

dear matthew,
	in the .forward file you should just write the complete email
address of the account where you want your mail to be forwarded to.if you
want it to forwarded to more than one place then all these addresses
should be written in the consecutive lines.one address per line is
desirable!
bye
ashish

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 23 Apr 1996 12:41:10 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
	[email-masked] (Brad Brighton) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> "James T. Park" <[email-masked]> writes:
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>   Hi all, 
>
>   I've got a bad case of VMS and need to be able to get my email 
>   forwarded.  I've tried using a .forward and a forward. file but neither 
>   seems to work.  Any ideas would be most appreciated.
>
>   J.Park
>
>You need to go into the VMSmail system (type MAIL and press return at
>the DCL prompt). From there, type HELP SET FORWARD and you'll be
>greeted with the information of how to set a forward for VMS.
>
>The specifics, however, of what you set your forwarding address to
>will be determined by the type of SMTP mail software you're running on
>the VMS box.

In the old system, you need to put this phrase if you want to forward 
email to [email-masked]:

	in%"[email-masked]"

But things have changed.  The new mail software has simplified your 
task.  You can now simply enter:

	[email-masked]

in the set forward command.  We currently have OpenVMS 6.1.

Just my 2c.

Jie
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From: [email-masked] (Brad Brighton)
Date: 22 Apr 1996 15:01:42 -0400

Hi all, 

   J.Park

Check out the FAQ for OpenVMS (I don't know the URL off the top of my
head but you can get to it eventually through
www.openvms.digital.com). There's information there about forwarding
for the different SMTP mail handlers out there.

-brad
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