help, need to have pine automatically forward mail, unix envir.

[Seth Musselman]

I need to have mail being sent to an address automatically forwarded to a
different address. Is it possible? How can i do it?
Thank you very much

seth

[Paul O Bartlett]

On 2 Sep 1998, Seth Musselman wrote:

> I need to have mail being sent to an address automatically forwarded to a
> different address. Is it possible? How can i do it?

Pine will not do what you want. For incoming mail, Pine is part of
the mail reading process, and you want something which is part of the
mail delivery process. Because your subject says that you are in a
unix environment, learn about the "forward" mechanism. You can start
with 'man forward'. Basically, you create a file called .forward in
your home directory containing the address to which you want mail
forwarded. This assumes that your mail delivery agent honors the
forward mechanism.

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[Joachim Achtzehnter]

"Seth Musselman" <seth...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
> I need to have mail being sent to an address automatically forwarded
> to a different address. Is it possible?

Yes, this is possible, but Pine has nothing to do with this. Automatic
mail forwarding is the responsibility of the mail transfer agent (MTA)
that is responsible for delivery to the original address.

> How can i do it?

How you can tell the MTA that it should forward to another address
instead of delivering to the original address depends on the kind of
MTA, and on how it is configured.

Since you are in a Unix environment, chances are good that the MTA
might be sendmail. If this is the case, you can try creating a file
called ".forward" in your home directory. This file can contain
multiple forwarding addresses (one per line). It must be writable only
by owner, otherwise it may be ignored by sendmail.

Joachim

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