Forwarding your Astro, Nimbus, Thunder, or Unix Mail

Fall 2002

To forward your e-mail from your Astro, Thunder, Nimbus, or Unix account to another account, you must create a hidden file called .forward. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. If you see the Unix menu when you log on, press 5 and then Enter to go to the Unix system prompt.

2. At the system prompt, type:

   pico .forward

   which is the word pico (the name of a Unix editor), a space, and then a period (.) and the word forward. Then press the Enter key. The pico editor will open with a blank screen.

3. In this screen, type the full e-mail address where you would like your mail be forwarded. For example, if you want to forward your mail to your AOL account and your AOL e-mail address is jdoe@aol.com, you would type:

   jdoe@aol.com

4. After you type the address, hold down the Control key and type the letter x to exit.

5. At the Save modified buffer... press y for yes, and then press Enter to accept the filename.

   From then on, all your mail will be forwarded. You can send yourself a message to make sure it's working. If you now wish to return to the the Unix menu, type unixmenu at the system prompt.

Note that you can cancel forwarding at any time by typing at the system prompt:

rm .forward

which is rm (stands for remove), a space, and then a period (.) and the word forward.