Subject: Forwarding.

From: Frank Strobel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 12:19:46 -0400

Hi All!

I have a question regarding forwarding mail.  I worked for a company and 
used the server there.  Now I am back at school and my mail is forwarded 
(.forward file in user directory) to my new account.  It works fine.

The question is if my old company has to pay for any traffic that is 
produced by people trying to send mail to my old account.  The internet 
provider charges the company be the transmitted amount of information.  
Is the mail first completely sent to my old address and then forwarded or 
directly forwarded to my new account?

Thank you very much for your help in advance!

-Frank

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:39:13 -0700

> directly forwarded to my new account?

It is sent to your old address then forwarded.

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 10 May 1996 17:09:53 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>directly forwarded to my new account?

Yes, mails go to the first destination and are forwarded by that machine
to the second.  If you hate to waste computer/network resources, you 
should inform the senders to send all emails to your preferred account 
directly.

Jie
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From: Tom Cowell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 May 96 19:44:03 GMT

> should inform the senders to send all emails to your preferred account 

One option, if you have the time and software, would be to have your old
mailhost inform them for you. If that machine has procmail, or if you are
allowed to compile/install software on it, then you could do the following.
Use your .forward file to pipe the mail into procmail, and set up a
.procmailrc file that a) forwards the message to you, and b) sends a prepared
message to the originator of the mail, informing them of your address change.
Quite a major job if you don't already know how to do it, though.

-- 
Tom