Forwarding your mail

"forwarding" is an ambiguous word; this help topic covers a few unrelated subjects:

First:
- Having all your mail delivered to an alternate address instead of or in addition to your World account...
- ...and turning that forwarding off
Second: sending a specific message on to someone else
And finally: We do not do automatic forwarding to your new ISP if you close your account with us, however, our most inexpensive accounts ("A La Carta", previously called "Basic") have the ability to forward mail. If you want to continue receiving mail at The World (for forwarding or otherwise) you might consider keeping an A La Carta account here if you move your main account elsewhere.

Sending chosen messages to someone else

You can send copies of a specific address to other Internet addresses. How you do this depends on what mail program you're using.

For pine, (V)iew the message and use (F) to forward it.

For mail, read the message, then use

	
	m username@somewhere.dom

When you are in the body of the message, use

~f

alone on a line to insert the message. Send as usual.

For dmail, read the message and use

	f username@somewhere.dom

and send as usual.

For other mail software, let us know if you need help on this issue.

Redirecting or copying all message to another address

In order to forward your mail to another address, all you need to do is create the file ".forward" that contains only the address you want to receive the email. To stop mail forwarding, remove the file (command shown below).

You can either create the file by editing it and adding the address:

	world% pico .forward

Or you can create it by "echoing" the information into it:

	world% echo newaddress@somewhere.com > .forward

This one line will create the file and put the address in it.

You can forward your mail and keep a copy by creating the file ".forward" which should contain your account name with a backslash in front of it and the other email address where you would like the mail to go. If you are not familiar with an editor on this system, we recommend using Pico since it is a menu-driven text editor.

	world% pico .forward

and place the addresses in the file like this:

\foobar,foobar@domain.name.here

To turn off forwarding:

	world%  rm  .forward