How To Forward Your Holly (Or Lamar) Account E-Mail To Another E-mail Address

Information About E-Mail On Your Holly (or Lamar) Account:

When you have a Holly account,

    you have an email account/address on Holly that looks like:

         your_holly_login_name@holly.colostate.edu
	

(Substitute Lamar for Holly if you have a Lamar account)

People can send you email at this address
    For instance, your CS Instructors may use this address by default
This means you should examine your email at this address regularly

However, you might not want to use this Holly (or Lamar) email account

    to read your email

if you have another email service you normally use

    or would prefer to use

such as yahoo, juno or hotmail, etc.

Forwarding Your Holly (or Lamar) E-mail
    If You Use/Prefer Another E-mail Service:

Suppose the email address at the service you use or prefer to use looks like this:

          your_other_email_name@otherservice.com
	

The process described below causes all email sent to your Holly (or Lamar) account email address
    to be diverted (or forwarded) to this other email address/account above

A copy of the forwarded email is not preserved in your Holly (or Lamar) email account

Note: The following procedure can be done from your home/office

        if you have dialup modem service to the CSU ACNS servers

OR it can be done if you can telnet in from another machine,

OR it can be done from a PC/Mac at most campus computing facilities

Forwarding Your Holly (or Lamar) E-mail
    To More Than One Other E-mail Address:

If you have more then one email address
    and you want copies of the messages to go to all of them
        (mirroring them),
then change the echo line in the previous above as follows:

echo "email_name1@service1.com, email_name2@service2.com" > .forward
            

Again, don't forget the period after the ">" sign and before "forward"

Just list all of your email accounts/addresses
    inside the quotation marks, separated by commas

Note that all old or previous email addresses
    are replaced with the (new) email addresses
        you specify in the echo command above

WARNING: Do not put your Holly (or Lamar)
    as one of the email addresses in the echo command above

You must repeat the above process
    (specifying all email addresses)
when you wish to add/delete one or more email forwarding addresses

Avoiding A MAJOR Disaster
    (I.e. Checking What You Did Above IS Working):

It is easy to make a mistake using any of the above echo commands
    (i.e. it is easy to mistype an email address)
Here is how to check that the forwarding is working:

Send email to your Holly (or Lamar) account/address       (you can even do this from your Holly (or Lamar) account)   Then, login to your (one or more) other email accounts       that you specified forwarding to and   Make sure the forwarded email got there!

If one or more of your other email accounts did not receive the email that was supposed to be forwarded to it
    (allowing for lag times and server/service problems/delays),
then repeat the above echo command step you used before
    (being more careful to correctly type the one or more email addresses)