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- ROUTE - forward mail delivery to another address
-
- Usage: ROUTE [address]
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- The ROUTE command redirects all incoming mail automatically. A file named
- .forward is created in your home directory to hold the forwarding address.
- The ROUTE command with no address cancels routing.
-
- A typical use of ROUTE is to direct your mail to someone else while you
- are on vacation. If you have more than one userid, you could ROUTE
- so that all incoming mail goes to one of them.
-
- Examples:
- MM>route abc #to the id abc
- MM>route abc@cuvmb #to an id on another machine at CU
- MM>route abc@xyz.bfu.edu #to an id at another university
- MM>route #back to me
- MM>status #shows my routing (among other things)
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- Valid addresses for routing are of the following forms:
- userid --Any userid on the same machine.
- userid@host --Any userid on another system. host: for Columbia,
- usually the machine name alone; for Internet,
- domain name format; for Bitnet, node.bitnet
- \myid --Your own userid (to include yourself in a routing).
- A backslash \ is recommended to avoid looping.
- You can specify a list of addresses separated by commas.
- Do not use the forms *filename or @filename, or an alias you DEFINEd,
- or . (period) to mean yourself.
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- Advanced users: To route into a file, you must create the file first and set
- mode 4000 (u+s) (e.g. chmod 4600 to get protections -rws------). In the
- route command, specify the full path to the file from root, e.g. "route
- /f/u1/d00000/myid/filename".
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- To circumvent someone else's routing, send to \\userid.
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- For more help, type "help" and one of these topics:
- send status who addressing other
-