[comp.mail.misc] Forwarding addresses in VMS Mail

cml8@robin.cs.uofs.edu (Chris M. Little) (12/07/90)

When I send mail to a user at onother Internet site, I specify at the TO:
prompt:
         SMTP%"user@host.domain"

I want to set my automatic forwarding address using SET FORWARD to another
Internet site.  Is this possible?  If so, how?  Two things I tried were:

   mail> set forward SMTP%"user@host.domain"    and
   mail> set forward user@host.domain

Neither of these worked.  E-mail suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks.


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Chris Little (Graduate Asstistant)	-	CML8@JAGUAR.UOFS.EDU	(VMS)
Department of Computing Sciences	-	CML8@SCRANTON.BITNET	(VMS)
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania.	-	CML8@ROBIN.CS.UOFS.EDU	(UNIX)

austin@cs.widener.edu (Jeff Austin) (12/07/90)

Chris Little writes:

>When I send mail to a user at onother Internet site, I specify at the TO:
>prompt:
>         SMTP%"user@host.domain"
>
>I want to set my automatic forwarding address using SET FORWARD to another
>Internet site.  Is this possible?  If so, how?  Two things I tried were:
>
>   mail> set forward SMTP%"user@host.domain"    and
>   mail> set forward user@host.domain
>
>Neither of these worked.  E-mail suggestions would be much appreciated.
>Thanks.
>

Chris:

	MAIL is having a problem with the quotes in the forward string.
	You've got to (believe it or not) TRIPLE the quotes as follows:

		MAIL> SET FORWARD SMTP%"""user@host.domain"""

	That should work.  Check it with SHOW FORWARD.

				Jeff

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cml8@robin.cs.uofs.edu (Chris M. Little) (12/07/90)

In article <179@platypus.uofs.edu> cml8@robin.cs.uofs.edu (Chris M. Little) writes:
>When I send mail to a user at onother Internet site, I specify at the TO:
>prompt:
>         SMTP%"user@host.domain"
>
>I want to set my automatic forwarding address using SET FORWARD to another
>Internet site.  Is this possible?  If so, how?  Two things I tried were:
>
>   mail> set forward SMTP%"user@host.domain"    and
>   mail> set forward user@host.domain
>
>Neither of these worked.  E-mail suggestions would be much appreciated.
>Thanks.
>

Thanks to all those who sent a solution.  Two solutions that worked were:

 (1) mail> set forward SMTP%"""user@host.domain"""
 (2) mail> set forward "SMTP%""user@host.domain"""

Essentially, the quotes have to be quoted.  So note the number and arrangement
of the quotes.
-- 
Chris Little (Graduate Asstistant)	-	CML8@JAGUAR.UOFS.EDU	(VMS)
Department of Computing Sciences	-	CML8@SCRANTON.BITNET	(VMS)
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania.	-	CML8@ROBIN.CS.UOFS.EDU	(UNIX)