Subject: Re: Forwarding mail to new address

From: [email-masked] (Morton Lee Cohen)
Date: 29 Apr 1996 01:16:39 GMT

Chip Old ([email-masked]) writes:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 1996 [email-masked] wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>  
> 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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> Francis E. Old (Chip Old)         Internet: [email-masked]
> Internetworking Administrator     Voice:    (410) 887-6180
> Baltimore County Public Library   FAX:      (410) 887-2091
> 320 York Road
> Towson, Maryland 21204 USA
> 

Hi Chip,

	Question: Where does Baltimore County have its PINE mail program
pointing its Folder-Collections configuration line to? Is it /Mail or
/Work, where the user uploads and downloads to?

	The Freenet that I am on, that has PINE has it fixed for /Mail and
when it comes time to rename the Sent-Mail folder, the old Sent-Mail folder
is stuck in the Mail directory, unless Freenet Staffers, moves the folder
to the /Work directory for downloading purposes.

	Thanks in advance!

--
Morton Lee Cohen    --- E-Mail [email-masked]
Resume' : Creator of "I Dream of Jeannie"  - 1961  and
         Creator and Developer of "XUXA" - 1965

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From: "Steve D." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 10:52:53 -0700

I'm new to pine.  Is there a way or command to have all mail forwarded to a new E-mail 
adress.  I changed accounts and it's a pain to check in both places.
Please can you also reply by e-mail to  [email-masked]

Thanks in advance.

Steve Demers