Account Forwarding ICS100 David Pai Spring 2007
This tutorial covers… Forwarding hcc.hawaii.edu to another account like your hawaii.edu account (or yahoo, hotmail, gmail,… account) Forwarding your hawaii.edu account to another account like your hcc.hawaii.edu account
What is Account Forwarding Account Forwarding is a way to consolidate s from different accounts For Instance, you all have to have 2 accounts for the University of Hawaii –Main UH account where you login using your myUhPortal username and password –HCC account where you login using your HCC username and password forwarding allows you to send all received on one of those accounts to the other so you only ever have to check 1 account (instead of 2)
Forwarding You HCC Mail To forward all of your new, incoming from your hcc.hawaii.edu account to a different account (address) –Start and log-in to your ssh client shell Start Bar All Programs SSH Secure Shell Secure Shell Client Click “Quick Connect” –Host Name: “ssh.hcc.hawaii.edu” –User Name: “your hcc.hawaii.edu username” –Port Number: 22 is correct so leave alone –Authentication Method: “password”
Forwarding Your HCC (cont.) Once you click “Connect” you will have to enter your hcc.hawaii.edu password At the prompt ([pulua2m]:), type in the following: –Echo –Where is the address that you would like all of your forwarded For example, I forwarded all of my “hcc ” to my account What you just did: –Wrote your address, to a file named “.forward” that resides in you Unix home –All s to your hcc account will now be forwarded to your account and not stored on the hcc system.
Forwarding your hawaii.edu 1.Go to 2.Log in using your UH username and password. 3.Click the Options button. 4.On the left, click the Settings link. 5.Now on the right, you will see a section at the bottom titled Mail Forwarding. In the text box, type in the address that you would like all your mail to be forwarded to. You may enter more than one address but be sure that you type only one address per line. 6.Click the Save Changes button.