Forwarding Your E-Mail

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If you are going away from Panix for a while, or for some other reason would like your email to be automatically sent on to some other account (rather than being deposited in your mailbox on Panix) although you are keeping your Panix account, you can have Panix forward your mail automatically.

To prevent our mail servers from being blocklisted, we must restrict mail forwarding from sending out spam.

First, a few words on when not to use forwarding. You should not forward mail to another site where you have a system forwarding mail back to Panix. This can cause your e-mail to loop around repeatedly, not being delivered in the meanwhile, and then to die because of too many hops.

That said, in most situations forwarding can be very helpful. Here's how to do it.

From webmail

1. Log into webmail. (Don't forget to use your full email address with your usual password.)
2. Select the Options link at the top of the page.
3. Select Mail Forwarding Options
4. Enter the address to which you want to forward your mail.
   For instance, if I want all my Panix mail to go to [email protected] I would enter [email protected] into the text box.
5. If you also want to keep a copy on Panix, click the "Save local copy" box.
6. Click submit.

From the command line

The forward command allows you to see, modify, and delete your forwarding instructions.

• forward gives usage
• forward -e lets you edit your forwarding file
• forward -d deletes your forwarding file
• forward -r [file] replaces your forwarding file

It is often a good idea to save a local copy in your Panix account. You can do this by adding METOO on a separate line.

Here's what that might look like:

[email protected]
METOO

This means that you will have to clear out your mailbox on Panix occasionally, but it's probably worth it for the extra security.

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Last Modified:Tuesday, 10-Aug-2021 12:36:30 EDT
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