Mail forwarding

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Our mail delivery system looks for a file named .forward in your account home directory to determine where it delivers your mail. If this file does not exist, mail is delivered to your OCF account.

Contents 1 Enabling mail forwarding 1.1 Multiple recipient addresses 1.2 Saving a copy on the OCF 1.3 Selective mail forwarding 2 Disabling mail forwarding 3 See also 4 External links

Enabling mail forwarding

To enable mail forwarding, login via SSH and execute the following command:

echo "login@remotehost" >> ~/.forward

where login@remotehost is the desired recipient address, such as foo@yahoo.com. Alternatively, you may edit ~/.forward and add a recipient address to the file.

Multiple recipient addresses

You can forward mail to more than one address by executing the command to add a forwarding address multiple times, each time with a different recipient address. Again, you may directly edit ~/.forward, placing each recipient address on its own line.

Saving a copy on the OCF

You can retain a copy of all forwarded messages in your OCF account by adding the following line to ~/.forward:

\username

where username is your OCF username.

Selective mail forwarding

You can create files named in the format of ~/.forward+foo (where foo is an arbitrary word) to selectively forward your mail. Mail sent to username+foo@ocf.berkeley.edu will be forwarded to the addresses listed in .forward+foo.

Disabling mail forwarding

To disable mail forwarding, delete or rename the .forward files in your home directory.

See also

You can learn more about mail forwarding by logging in via SSH and typing

about forwarding

or by reading the manpage for forward.

External links

• How to forward your CalMail mail to your OCF account