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Most people in the campus community have more than one computer
system account. This has created a great deal of confusion for anyone
trying to send a message but not knowing which address to use. This
article will outline the steps necessary to forward your mail from
each of the systems in use by the academic community. Because many of
the users that will be reading this article have access to both PMail
and WPO 3.1 mail, I will use these as my example accounts; remember
that the User-ID and server reference that I use are for my accounts
only.
The first thing to do is find out what accounts you have access to.
Also I will be using the term User-ID" to reference the name of the
account you would use for logging into each of the systems. For
example, my CC1 Novell server account User-ID is MEARS but my VAX, SOL
and CMS account User-IDs are AN25.
By default, if you have an account on a file server you should have
access to PMail. If you have access to WPO 3.1 mail or any other mail
package, your system administrator should have informed you. If you
prefer to receive your mail at an account that uses something other
than PMail or WPO 3.1 Mail then you will need to know your full
Internet address and just fill in your preferred address instead of the
addresses that I show as examples.
Most addresses are based around the User-ID and the name of the
host systems that mail is received at. This is what my addresses look
like at each system:
CC1 WPO 3.1 Mail: mears%cc1@wpo.unt.edu
CC1 Novell host: mears@cc1.unt.edu
Sol UNIX host: an25@sol.acs.unt.edu
VAX host: an25@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
CMS: an25@vm.acs.unt.edu
If you do not know what the Internet address is for your account to which you want your mail forwarded, then you can find out by either contacting your system administrator or the Computing Center.
From the Pegasus Mail (PMail) Main Menu, select the Preferences
option then select the Edit Extended Features option. If this item is
not available, then you will need to contact your network manager and
request that the Extended Features option be enabled or that he/she
forwards your mail for you. Once the Edit Extended Features screen is
displayed you will have the option to change the Autoforward and
Internet AF. The difference between the two items is that the first
item Autoforward" will forward only the mail sent from another local
PMail account that uses the address format server/User-ID such as
CC1/MEARS. The Internet Autoforward will only forward mail that
arrived from the Internet. Within each field you can enter the address
to which you would like your mail forwarded. There is no need for
special characters or punctuation. Here are some examples.
If I wanted to forward just my local PMail to my WPO 3.1 Mail
account I would enter the address: mears%cc1@wpo.unt.edu in the
Autoforward field, or if I wanted to forward all my PMail to my Sol
account I would enter: an25@sol.acs.unt.edu in both fields.
Remember, there is no special punctuation necessary.
The forwarding feature is part of an internal control structure to
which users do not have access. If you would like your WPO 3.1 mail
forwarded to any other account then you will need to request that your
network administrator add the forwarding information to your account.
The most unfortunate drawback is that if your WPO 3.1 mail is
forwarded then it will become inaccessible until the forwarding is
removed. Another drawback is that Internet mail sent to a WPO 3.1
address that is forwarded will be bounced back to the sender.
VAX systems use a set command within the MAIL Program to establish
the forwarding for an account. After logging into your VAX account and
running MAIL, type the command:
set forward in%"""address"""
In the address part type in the full Internet address of
the account to which your mail will be forwarded. For example, if I
were to forward my VAX account mail to my PMail address I would type
the command:
set forward in%"""mears@ cc1.unt.edu"""
Or if I were to forward my mail to my WPO 3.1 Mail I would type:
set forward in%"""mears% cc1@wpo.unt.edu"""
It is important that you enter the characters exactly as shown,
there are three quotation marks ( ) before and after and there is the
word in and a percent sign (in%) just before the Internet address.
Once this is entered any mail that is sent to your account will be
forwarded to the account designated in the address part.
To check your forward address, type SHOW FORWARD from the MAIL
prompt.
If you have an account on either Jove or Sol then you need to
create a file containing the address to which you want your mail
forwarded. Once you log in to your account, you may use any of the
text editors that are available or use the echo command. To use the
echo command just type the following and fill in the address part with
the address to which your mail is going to be forwarded:
echo "address" .forward
This command creates a file and places the information that is in
quotes in the file. For example, if I was going to forward my Jove or
Sol account to my WPO 3.1 Mail then I would type the following:
echo "mears%cc1@wpo.unt. edu" .forward
as soon as this is done all the mail sent to my Jove or Sol account
will be forwarded on to my WPO 3.1 Mail account. It is important to
note that there is a period (.) before the word forward.
If you wish to use an editor then simply create a file named .forward
and add the full Internet address to the file.
Forwarding your mail from your CMS account requires a number of
commands that need to be entered from the command line or the Ready"
prompt. After logging into your CMS account type the commands in the
following order and enter your preferred E- mail address in the
address part.
TERM CHARDEL OFF TELL MAILER FORWARD ADD address TELL MAILER FORWARD LIST
The third command will show you how the forwarding has been
set, so that you can verify that your forwarding was registered
correctly. For example, if I wanted to forward my CMS Mail to my WPO
3.1 Mail then I would enter the same commands but replace the address
part with:
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