[comp.sys.sgi] fowarding mail

eugholz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (09/14/90)

I'm trying to foward my mail from a Personal IRIS on which I have an account
to my main general-purpose account on a different machine.  The command that
I know of to foward mail is "mail -F destination" -- and this is what is 
documented in the man page on mail on the IRIS.  However, trying this on two
different IRISes has yielded the message "unknown flag -F".  I'd appreciate
any hints about fowarding mail through this or any other technique.  I have
seen references to using a ".Foward file", but have not found any documentation
about the proper format for such a file -- and trial and error isn't doing it
for me.
Thanks a lot,
Eugene Gholz
(send replies to eugholz@athena.mit.edu)

blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (09/14/90)

   You need a file call .forward in your home directory.  This file
contains one line of the form    logname@destination  or what ever
you would have in a "To:" line.
--

	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 361
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov