Subject: Universal mail forwarding

From: Abraham Blum <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 13:08:09 +0200 (IST)

I would appreciate answer to the following question:
How do I set my email account under Pine to UNIVERSALLY forward 
(automatically) any mail received to another mailing address. This is an 
essential function for any mail account holder wo changes his job or goes 
on sabbatical etc'.
Thank y'all!

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 08 Apr 1998 13:54:47 +0200

>>On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 13:08:09 +0200 (IST), Abraham Blum said:

Hi,

 > I would appreciate answer to the following question: How do I set
 > my email account under Pine to UNIVERSALLY forward (automatically)
 > any mail received to another mailing address. This is an essential
 > function for any mail account holder wo changes his job or goes on
 > sabbatical etc'.  Thank y'all!

you're absolutely correct. Nevertheless this is not a feature pine has 
to come up with, because it's part of the mail transfer process.

Create a .forward file in your home directory:

echo "my-new-mail-address" > $HOME/.forward

hth, norbert.

-- 
Norbert Koch, Delta Industrie Informatik GmbH.
I'm working under the direct orders of WAYNE NEWTON to deport
 consenting adults!

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:30:02 -0700 (PDT)

This will do it;
Quit Pine into your home directory, at the command prompt do a:
	$pico .forward (make sure you put the "dot" in there...please.)
This will open a new file named as above. On the first line of the file,
type the new address that you wish mail to be sent to, like this:
	[email-masked] (or whatever email address you will want mail to wind
up in) then do a: 
	^O (Control then letter "O") 
	You will be prompted "File to write:.forward?" answer is "Y" for yes, or hit enter. Your file is now saved.
^X (Control "X") Exits you out of that file, and the text editor too, back
to your command prompt.
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One caution, what you have just done sends ALL mail to another address, no
copy is kept locally.
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When you return from your trip/vacation/sabbatical, to restore things to
the way they were you must shut down the forwarding by either deleting the
.forward file, or emptying it's contents. (Personally I always empty it,
though it wouldn't make a difference)
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To empty the .forward file:
At the command prompt:
$pico .forward (opens the file)
with the cursor at the beginning of the one and only line do a:
^K (Control K) that deletes the line of text [email-masked]
^O (Control O) saves the file
"Y" (Yes, save .forward please)
^X (Control X, to exit the text editor)
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to delete the file, at the command prompt do a:
$rm .forward

Hope this helps, and good luck.
-Colin.
---------------------------------------
Colin J. Raven
Network & Systems Administrator, HDS Lab, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA  |  Harrison, NY
"Communications at the Speed of Life"

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:57:52 +0800 (GMT)

> echo "my-new-mail-address" > $HOME/.forward

And....in the case of "changing jobs/employers" where an account is
deleted a "nice" system admin may create an "alias" for a given length of
time.  In some systems aliases are defined in /usr/lib/aliases.

Ed

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 08 Apr 1998 17:15:50 +0200

>>On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:57:52 +0800 (GMT), Edward M Greshko said:

Hi Ed,

[about .forward]

 > deleted a "nice" system admin may create an "alias" for a given
 > length of time.  In some systems aliases are defined in
 > /usr/lib/aliases.

You *must be kidding* :-) A *nice* system administrator ... I'd call
this a oxymoron }8-) I've only have to take a look at me ...

But yes, you're right - this would be a good way to handle it and,
well you know, a bribe here, a blackmail there, and things start to
work - ha! charming :-)

cheers, norbert.

-- 
Norbert Koch, Delta Industrie Informatik GmbH.
Toes, knees, NIPPLES.  Toes, knees, nipples, KNUCKLES...
 Nipples, dimples, knuckles, NICKLES, wrinkles, pimples!!
 I don't like FRANK SINATRA or his CHILDREN.

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 01:53:35 -0500 (CDT)

>From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
>Date: 08 Apr 1998 17:15:50 +0200

>[about .forward]

Ed, Colin, and Norbert:

I wish you would all remind everyone that .forward is a particular type of
sendmail alias. While sendmail is a common Mail Transport Agent, it is by no
means universal. It's not done that way with SysVRel4 rmail, as an example.

In fact, I've never heard that other MTA's use it. I believe that .forward is
unique to sendmail. Am I correct?

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:01:36 +0800 (GMT)

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> sendmail alias. 

Gee....I think you just did!  :-)

But, yes, you are correct that "your milage may vary" when it comes to
responses in this and other mailing lists.  

Ed

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 09 Apr 1998 09:55:19 +0200

>>On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 01:53:35 -0500 (CDT), Adam H Kerman said:

 >> From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]> Date: 08 Apr 1998 17:15:50
 >> +0200

 > I wish you would all remind everyone that .forward is a particular
 > type of sendmail alias. While sendmail is a common Mail Transport

 > In fact, I've never heard that other MTA's use it. I believe that
 > .forward is unique to sendmail. Am I correct?

Hi Adam,

I fully agree and apologise for the 'fast forward'.

Hmm, so I'll have to stick to the 'go away, look for an appropriate
news group' :-)

-- 
Norbert Koch, Delta Industrie Informatik GmbH.
ONE:  I will donate my entire ``BABY HUEY'' comic book collection
 to the downtown PLASMA CENTER..
 TWO:  I won't START a BAND called ``KHADAFY & THE HIT SQUAD''..
 THREE:  I won't ever TUMBLE DRY my FOX TERRIER again!!
 LocalWords:  Kerman chinet Greshko Colin

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From: ona <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:54:07 +0000 (GMT)

> Hmm, so I'll have to stick to the 'go away, look for an appropriate

No don't start that...I almost feel as if I can ask a question....and
get an answer....sort of the same feeling I had back in the late
seventies....."I think it's safe to go back into the water."  :)

Ona

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:08:50 -0700 (PDT)

Yup...you are in fact, dead right. I am appropriately humbled, suitably
reminded, advised, informed, and now in a state of zen-like "hyper
awareness" (without coffee even) on this subject. :)
-Colin.
------------------------------------------
Colin J. Raven
Network & Systems Administrator, HDS Lab, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA  |  Harrison, NY
"We shall bravely venture to this place you speak of, where the sendmail
does not rule, and should we return, there will be those who will tell of 
what we saw there down the generations"
(Foquet D'Abanville...well kinda, just 400 years later, and slightly
altered)