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Article #2055Re: Forwarding addresses in VMS Mail
From: Jeff Austin
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 23:52
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 23:52
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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 -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jeff Austin - Widener University, Chester PA | The Computer Rule of Thumb: | | austin@tattoo.cs.widener.edu | "When in doubt, reboot!" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!cs.widener.edu!austin From: austin@cs.widener.edu (Jeff Austin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Forwarding addresses in VMS Mail Keywords: Set forward, VMS, Mail, Internet Message-ID: <1990Dec06.235210.7662@cs.widener.edu> Date: 6 Dec 90 23:52:10 GMT References: <179@platypus.uofs.edu> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 32