Subject: Help please

From: Sandra Friedman xORIC <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:21:29 -0500 (EST)

Hi there!

Can anyone please tell me how to get PINE to forward my mail to another
email address while I am on vacation?  I'm on a UNIX system at work with
a firewall and will be out for a week and wish to receive my mail at
another location.

Thanks so much.

Sandra Friedman
International Information Specialist
National Criminal Justice Reference Service

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 00:34:46 EST

>email address while I am on vacation?  I'm on a UNIX system at work 
with a firewall and will be out for a week and wish to receive my mail at
another location.
>Sandra Friedman

As a number of people mentioned to me when I had the same request last
week, create a file with the email address you want your mail forwarded
to and put it in your directory on the UNIX server you use PINE on. Name
it: ".forward" be sure the file contains only the email address and no
extraneous characters such as end of file or end of page characters. 

I know this works since I am using it now.

John Ullman

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:46:34 -0500

> a firewall and will be out for a week and wish to receive my mail at

  Uh, actually, Pine will not forward your mail at all.  It isn't
designed to.  However, since you are asking for a Un*x system, go to
your home directory and create a one-line file called exactly .forward
and containing nothing but the email address to which the mail is to be
forwarded.  I'm honestly not sure if the firewall makes any difference.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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