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Grex Info Item 261: I NEED HELP!
Entered by rlawson on Sun Oct 15 15:33:37 UTC 1995:

How do I get pine to forward my mail to other systems?

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#1 of 4 by scg on Sun Oct 15 17:07:14 1995:

Put a file in your directory called .forward, containing your new e-mail
address.

Tip: When entering an item here, it is helpful to have the header be something
like "Forwarding mail," instead of "I NEED HELP!"  The latter won't help
future people who come in here looking for the same information.


#2 of 4 by rlawson on Sun Oct 15 17:31:33 1995:

Sorry!


#3 of 4 by davel on Sun Oct 15 18:21:06 1995:

Steve's answer is the correct one, but be aware:
We've quite recently gotten our UID ("user ID") numbers up over the magic
number of 32767, and have found the hard way that there's a compiled-in
bug in (I think) sendmail which prevents .forwards from working right
for people with UIDs over this limit.  To find out your UID: issue
the command
id -u         (from a Unix shell prompt)  or
!id -u        (from a bbs or menu or lynx prompt)



#4 of 4 by popcorn on Sun Oct 15 18:30:08 1995:

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