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When you first sign up to Redbrick and your account is created, all mail sent to your Redbrick email address is forwarded to your DCU email address. | |||
While this is in place, there won't be a Mailbox for you on Redbrick's servers. Your mail will not be stored on Redbrick so you will be unable to use Redbrick webmail to access your messages. | |||
== Disabling the default forward == | |||
Disabling the default forward | |||
If you want to disable email forwarding for your account, there are 2 ways to do this: | If you want to disable email forwarding for your account, there are 2 ways to do this: | ||
* Run the following command at a shell: | |||
noforward | |||
* Delete the '.forward' file in your home directory: | |||
rm ~/.forward | |||
Once this is done, the next piece of mail to arrive should create your Mailbox on redbrick, and you will be able to access your mails using [[mutt]] or via the webmail interface. | |||
== Setting a new forward == | |||
Setting your redbrick email to forward to another address is quite simple. | |||
Save the file, and email forwarding should now be active | Create a file in your home directory called '.forward' and put the email address you want your mail to forward to on the first line. If you want to keep a copy in your redbrick mailbox too, you can add \username on the next line (where username is your redbrick username. | ||
Save the file, and email forwarding should now be active. | |||
To quickly set up forwarding you can also type: | To quickly set up forwarding you can also type: | ||
echo "mynewaddress@somewhere.com" > ~/.forward | echo "mynewaddress@somewhere.com" > ~/.forward | ||
at your shell and it'll all be done in one step. | at your shell and it'll all be done in one step. | ||
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