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Forwarding
[Summary]
[Method 1]
[Method 2]
You can forward your DECF account to a personal account of your choice. Or if you have a
class account and a regular kepler account on a machine, you may want all
mail to the class account forwarded to your regular kepler account.
Here are the instructions for setting up automatic forwarding:
Setting it up
- Login to our WebMail system at https://webmail.decf.berkeley.edu
- Click on Options (on the top-side Menu)
- Click on DECF Account Utilities
- Click on Setup Mail Forwarding and Vacation Message
- Fill out the form for setting up your forward.
- Click on Save Options
Turn off mail forwarding
- Login to our WebMail system at https://webmail.decf.berkeley.edu
- Click on Options (on the top-side Menu)
- Click on DECF Account Utilities
- Click on Setup Mail Forwarding and Vacation Message
- Remove all the email addresses under Mail Forwarding
- Click on Save Options
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SSH into your kepler.berkeley.edu account
** You can download the latest SSH here
- Create a .forward file in your kepler home directory. At the
system prompt (which, here, is represented by the symbol %),
type in:
% pico .forward (press Enter)
- When the pico buffer pops up, type in, on the first line, the
destination email address for your forwarded mail :
example: King_Arthur@yahoo.com
- If you want your incoming mail to be forwarded and also be kept in
the local kepler server, add a single line under the email
address that you just typed with your Newton login name:
example: \arthur
(The backslash before kepler-login-name tells the mail program not
to forward the mail a second time.)
- When done, press Enter so that you are on a new line. Save the file
and exit pico. To save the file, hold the CTRL and x key (CTRL-x)
down at the same time.
- Back to the UNIX console, you need check the file permissions for
your .forward file. To do so, type in at the system prompt:
% ls -la | more (press Enter)
Now look in the right column for the line where your .forward file is. Then
directly in the left column check if you have this:
-rw-r--r--
This means that your .forward is user-writable but also
user/group/other-readable.
If it doesn't show as such, type in at the system prompt:
% chmod 644 .forward (press Enter)
For more information about file permissions, check out
our Help File on the subject.
You are now all set.
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