Subject: Re: Automatic forwading of incoming mail in pine

From: Jamie Royer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:47:57 -0700

[email-masked] wrote:
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> Is anyone aware of commands to configure pine to automatically forward
> incomming emails to a different email address?  Thanks.
> 
> Ravi
> [email-masked]

On Unix you create a ".forward" file in your home directory.  It has
nothing to do with Pine as far as I know.  Pine is a UI (MUA) to your
mail, other programs are used to control the other aspects of mail.
The ".forward" file simply contains the address to forward to.  

I just did "man mail" and there is a section on forwarding mail.

If you want to get fancy you can use your ".forward" file to call
"procmail" and filter your mail into different Pine inboxes, forward
to another address, or dump into "/dev/null".

Hope that helps.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:58:44 -0800

Ravi
[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:01:49 -0400

> incomming emails to a different email address?  Thanks.

    Pine itself will not automatically forward mail for you.  You must
use some task which will process the mail before Pine does anything
with it.  On Un*x systems, this is most commonly done by means of a
.forward file in your home directory.  (I cannot speak about other
operating systems.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:42:22 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:

-> On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 [email-masked] wrote:
-> 
-> > Is anyone aware of commands to configure pine to automatically forward 
-> > incomming emails to a different email address?  Thanks.
-> 
->     Pine itself will not automatically forward mail for you.  You must
-> use some task which will process the mail before Pine does anything
-> with it.  On Un*x systems, this is most commonly done by means of a
-> .forward file in your home directory.  (I cannot speak about other
-> operating systems.)
-> 
-> Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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-> Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
-> Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP 2.6.2 public key 
-> Home Page:  URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart     
-> 
Use procmail (on Un*x) to facilitate the task of filtering, forwarding ...
received mail.

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