Unix Forward

Forward is a program that lets you set an electronic mail forwarding address, so that mail arriving at your Andrew account will automatically be sent to another account. You can have your mail sent to an account on another campus computer, or even off-campus. Normally, all the formatting and insets (like italics or rasters) is removed when your mail is forwarded.  In order to preserve the ATK formatting, see the ms-mailinglists help document.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not have your mail forwarded to an another account and then back to your Andrew account. Forwarding back and forth creates a forwarding loop. 

For help using forward, see the following sections:

• Set a New Forwarding Address
• Cancel Forwarding
• Read and Test a Forwarding Address
• Options List

This document does not tell you how to forward your mail to your Andrew account (unless you want to forward from one cell running the Andrew Message System delivery system to another). You must find out how mail forwarding works on the other system in order to have mail forwarded to Andrew. The Andrew address to have mail forwarded to is userid+@andrew.cmu.edu.

Last Updated: 12/13/07