Technical Query

[abooth]

I seem to remember that if I ssh into my math account, there's some very simple one line command I can type to set my math email to forward somewhere else (my gmail). However, I can't remember what it is. Does anyone else?

(This is prompted by the huge amount of math spam I got today that I've decided I want gmail to deal with not me).

Comments

[quale]

edit your .forward file and put the place you want it to forward to in their.

the simple one line command is

echo 'myemail@forward.here' > .forward

[quale]

execute this while in your home directory

[abooth]

Thanks!

[krasnoludek]

Peter's reply is what I would have suggested too. I have also been irked to the point of switching my math mail to be forwarded to my gmail account. However, since I want to copy over all my past mail too, I haven't gotten around to doing the conversion because I haven't had very steady internet access in Europe.

In case you want to forward over all your old math email to Gmail, this website seems to have a good way to do it:

http://blog.aaltonen.us/2004/04/26/tip-batch-forward-email/

[abooth]

Well, it seemed to work. I would like to send all my old stuff over at some point, so I'll definitely take a look at that link later.