Thread: How to forward an email to other account

Trust me if you don't have admin access to mail server then forwarding mail can be problem. For example your account at uni tom.cat@myuni.com and then you gonna for holidays or just wanna forward email to mr.tom@yahoo.com then just do the following trick:

Code:

echo 'mr.tom@yahoo.com' > .forward

This also allow you to read any mail sent to your account when you don't have access to webmail and you can use one email id to manage all emails

Ah kool tip dood

Well that is good one.

this is great info. how do i go about removing the forward once i am done?

and if a user that is not root wants to add the forward, is there any way they can do it?

thanks guys...

Originally Posted by rude20

this is great info. how do i go about removing the forward once i am done?

and if a user that is not root wants to add the forward, is there any way they can do it?

thanks guys...

Just delete the file or edit out the same. User can add their entires in $HOME directory.

Thank you for the great tip! Very useful.

Thank you for the info provided.

I got so many solutions by reading this site i am very thankfull to you.

I am new to linux

i didn't understood that where i need to put the below piece of code can you explain it in brief . can you please help me out ?


echo 'mr.tom@yahoo.com' > .forward

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If you are the administrator of the mail server than if you need to forward all the mails of xyz.linuxhowto.in to hr@linuxhowto.in
In that case you will edit the file /etc/mail/aliases
/search for xyz
edit it to xyz.linuxhowto.in : hr@linuxhowto.in
after that save the mail and execute the command
#newaliases
that's it....Now your all mails of xyz@linuxhowto.in are forwarded to hr@linnuxhowto.in

regards
Pankaj pal

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