How to Forward/Unforward Your E-Mail

If you want to receive your e-mail in another account (holidays). You can forward it to that other account, no matter where on the internet, for as long as you need, and then unforward it when your ready to receive e-mail in your account again.

To set up a forward file in your account will require 2 steps:

A. Send a message to yourself with the e-mail address your mail is to be forwarded to.

1. Enter the PINE Main Menu
2. Press the letter c (Compose) as if to begin composing an e-mail message
3. In the TO: field, type in your own user-id. Press the Enter/Return key
4. In the Subject: field, type .forward and then press the Enter/ Return key
5. On the first and only line of the message, enter the full e-mail address you want to forward your messages to. Remove any other lines, for instance if you have a signature.
For example: user-id@calcna.ab.ca
6. Press "^X" (Ctrl key together with the letter x) to send the e-mail message.
7. Press the letter "q" and "y" to quit PINE.

B. Save the .forward file in your home directory.

1. Enter PINE again and open your Inbox
2. Go to your .forward e-mail message. Press the Enter/Return key.
3. Press the letter v (View message)
4. Press the letter v again (View the attachment)
5. Press the letter s to Save
6. Name the file .forward (the period is required)
7. Press the letter e (Exit View-attachment).

That's all there is to it.

To Unforward your e-mail

All that is required is that the ".forward" file be deleted.

Delete the file using the Home Directory Maintenance utility.

In short go into:

Personal Disk Space Maintenance

In the first few files listed you should see one called.

.forward

Get the highlight onto it and press the Enter/Return key. An asterisk should appear in the brackets to the left of the file. Next move the cursor toward the bottom of the screen until it is on an item that says:

Delete Selected Files

Press the Enter/Return key, which will delete the .forward file from your home directory. Your mail will then stay in the account it is addressed to.

If you have comments, suggestions or concerns, please contact the CCNA Helpdesk

Last revised April 28 1998