Subject: vms email forwarding

From: "kevin a. parendo" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 11:21:21 -0500

I read messages about forwarding mail by creating a file called
".forward" for UNIX systems, which works when I use that for my unix
system to transfer email to the vms server.  However, I would like to do
just the opposite: forward my email from my vms to my unix account.  I
am unsure about how to accomplish this.  Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.

kevin

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:21:11 -0500 (EST)

> just the opposite: forward my email from my vms to my unix account.  I

Oh boy.. s'been a while.

I think you need to go into vms mail and type "set forward=blah" but it's
been a loooong time :)

If you need to include the po%"[email-masked]" format then do so.. so
supposedly, the command is:

set forward=po%"[email-masked]"       or something else appropriate.

Or possibly I am totally wrong :)

Pat

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From: William Mahler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 20:26:42 -0400 (EDT)

I know the answer to this one!.
You need to use the set forward command.  It looks something like this
set forward """[email-masked]""""
Now you enter this command from the VMS Mail Prompt. It cannot as far as I
know be done from within pine. This is also the format if you site is
using Mulitnet as the smtp/telnet/ftp client/server. Since you are from a
edu site You may be running Dec version of the smtp/telnet/ftp server.
Check with you helpdesk or your system manager for the exact format of
the command.  You may or may not need the triple double quotes. Cannot
remember the reason we used this format it may have been the software
version syyntax at the time.

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, kevin a. parendo wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 11:21:21 -0500
> From: "kevin a. parendo" <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: vms email forwarding
> 

William R. Mahler
Ithaca City School District
Ithaca, New York 14850
e-mail [email-masked]
Voice (607) 274-6802
Helpline (607) 274-6800

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:22:55 -0500 (EST)

> set forward """[email-masked]""""
Yup, I remember it now :)  I was close, I guess.

> version syyntax at the time.
In VMS, double-double quotes is the way to denote a quotation mark in a
string.  so:  'write device "I said ""hello"""'  would print
'I said "hello"' to the specified device.  I think the mail needs the
double quotes as part of the email address itself, hence the doublequotes
at the begining to denote a string, then the double-double quotes to make
the doublequotes contained in the string.  It's all very complicated,
which is one reason IU got rid of their VMS-based machines :)

Pat