Re: Redirecting Mail

Jas (matt@nospam.uts.edu.au)
Mon, 5 Dec 1994 00:23:03 +1000 (EST)

Cameron Hutchison wrote this...
>
> Once upon a time Joshua Pitcher said...
> >
> > My account on acacia is to be closed over cristmas, so they tell me, and
> > as a result I will not be able to read my mail.
> >
> > Is there a way that I can redirect all incoming mail to my ftoomsh account?
>
> There are a number of things you can do.
>
> 1. Put a .forward file in your itd account that contains the name of the
> account you want mail forwarded to. This wont work if you dont have an itd
> account (ie its been deleted). I assume itd delete accounts, so this option
> is no good.
>
> 2. Ask some itd person really nicely to put your name in the system-wide
> aliases file. This means you dont need an account, but you do need to be
> nice.
>
> 3. Tell people to send you mail at ftoomsh. For instance, you can send a
> message to the progsoc mailserver to tell it to send progsoc stuff to
> your ftoomsh account. Make arrangements with any other mailing lists you
> are on and get them to change where they send their mail.
>
> Cheers
>
obviously this is going to affect quite a few people here on the list, so
i'll mail about what is happening with accounts.. account will be unusable
from the 19th onward. the machines will be upgraded to Solaris 2.3 so
having mail aliases on acacia/banksia/wattle will be an impossibility. and
having a @nospam.uts.edu.au mail alias means that you will still have a different
mail address, and _may_ take some time to set up, so you will probably
find telling people to mail you at ftoomsh your easiest option. if any one
else has questions about the upgrade, mail me...

Matt

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