To forward your electronic mail from your Ocean account to another e-mail account such as AOL, you need to create a file called .forward (dot-forward) and place the appropriate forwarding address in it.
- Open a connection to Ocean or Telnet to Ocean.
- At the "login:" prompt, type: loginname <ENTER>
- At the "Password:" prompt, type: password <ENTER>
- At Unix prompt%, type: pico Forward <ENTER>
- Type the e-mail address to which your mail is to be forwarded, e.g.,
- johndoe@xyz.edu
- Save the Forward file.
- Type Ctrl-x to exit.
- Type y for "yes" to "modify the buffer."
- Press <ENTER>
- At UNIX Prompt%, type: pico Forward <ENTER>
- Type both your e-mail address for the account in which the Forward file exists AND the e-mail address to which your mail is to be forwarded, e.g.,
- johndoe@ocean.otr.usm.edu, johndoe@xyz.edu
- Save the Forward file.
- Type Ctrl-x to exit.
- Type y for "yes" to "modify the buffer."
- Press <ENTER>
If you’d like the forwarding information to appear when someone fingers your account, you can set permissions so that others can read the Forward file. To do this, type: chmod 644 Forward<ENTER> at UNIX prompt%.
To cancel forwarding your e-mail, simply delete the Forward file. Type: rm Forward <ENTER> at UNIX prompt%.
