You can forward your email as long as you have an account with the College of Engineering or Computer Science.

Email forwarding is a feature for which you have direct control. You forward your email by creating a plain text file in your login directory at the top level named .forward (no suffix). The dot prefix makes it a hidden file under the Unix operating system. As seen by the Unix operating system, a .forward file must not be world writable. The mode should be between 755 and 700. Under Windows and Macintosh operating systems, a file created on a mounted Unix file system will by default have a usable permissions mode.

Your .forward file should contain the address to where you want your mail forwarded. You can start or stop forwarding at any time by temporarily renaming the file to something else when you want to stop forwarding.

Your .forward file contains one line which is usually just the email address to where you want to have your mail forwarded. Following is an example of a simple .forward file:

user_name@netscapemail.net

Here is an example for delivering a copy of your messages to two or more email addresses. Additional email addresses may be entered on the same line by delineating them with a comma

user_name@netscapemail.net, user_name@gmail.com

Here is an example for delivering a copy of your messages to your local mail account and forwarding a copy of your messages to the specified destination:

user_name, user_name@yahoo.com