How To Forward Email

On the account you want to forward email from:

1. Make sure that you are in your home directory. This you can do by merely typing (at the command line)

cd

and hitting a RETURN key.

2. Make sure that there is no .forward file in your home directory. This you can do by typing

ls .forward <press RETURN>

If the message returned is

.forward not found

that means that there is no .forward in your directory and you can go to step 3.
If the message returned is

.forward

that means that you already have a .forward file. In that case, get help from your system administrator (or email root@math.fsu.edu).

3. Type

echo forwarding_address > .forward <press RETURN>

where forwarding_address is the address you want your email to be forwarded to.

On the account you want to forward email to:

1. Make sure that there is no .forward file in your home directory (If there is one, your mail will bounce around, and never reach you).

ls .forward <press RETURN>

If the message returned is

.forward not found

that means that there is no .forward in your directory, and you are set. If the message returned is

.forward

that means that you already have a .forward file. In that case, get help from your system administrator (or email root@math.fsu.edu).

To stop e-mail forwarding:

1. Remove the .forward file from the account you are forwarding e-mail from.

rm .forward <press RETURN>

This will discontinue e-mail forwarding from that account.

To keep a local copy of e-mails:

1.Create a .forward file as described above.

2.Edit the forward file

pico .forward

3.Change the line to read:

\username, forwarding_address

This forwards your email to your current address (your username) in addition to your forwarding address. However, the backslash ("\") in front of your current address prevents mail from being forwarded in an endless loop.