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How to setup mail forwarding:

  • Telnet into your shell account first. If you need to forward mail from your POP-only account, you will need to contact support@binary.net, because POP-only email accounts do not come with shell access.
  • You will need to create a file in your home directory, called .forward. In that file you will need to put email address or addresses, where you would like all your mail forwarded to.
  • You can use any available editor to do that, or follow a simple procedure below.
  • At the shell prompt type:
    cat > .forward
  • Then type your other email address, where you want to forward your mail to:
    another@email.com
  • Then type Control-D .
  • Then you will see the shell prompt again, and at the prompt type:
    chmod go-wx+r .forward
  • The command above will change file permissions, so that other users will not be able to edit your forward file, and put arbitrary data in it.
  • More information is available on cat and chmod commands.
  • For a description of more sophisticated mail forwarding and filtering techniques, please see procmail documentation.

Please contact support@binary.net if you have any further questions.

 

 

 

 

 
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