1. Email Account Forwarding ICS100 David Pai Spring 2007

2. This tutorial covers… Forwarding hcc.hawaii.edu email 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 email account

3. What is Email Account Forwarding Email Account Forwarding is a way to consolidate emails from different accounts For Instance, you all have to have 2 email 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 Email forwarding allows you to send all email received on one of those accounts to the other so you only ever have to check 1 account (instead of 2)

4. Forwarding You HCC Mail To forward all of your new, incoming email from your hcc.hawaii.edu account to a different email 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”

5. Forwarding Your HCC Email (cont.) Once you click “Connect” you will have to enter your hcc.hawaii.edu password At the prompt ([pulua2m]:), type in the following: –Echo xxx@yyy.zzz >.forwardxxx@yyy.zzz –Where xxx@yyy.zzz is the email address that you would like all of your email forwarded toxxx@yyy.zzz For example, I forwarded all of my “hcc email” to my paid@hawaii.edu account paid@hawaii.edu What you just did: –Wrote your email address, xxx@yyy.zzz, to a file named “.forward” that resides in you Unix home directoryxxx@yyy.zzz –All emails to your hcc account will now be forwarded to your xxx@yyy.zzz account and not stored on the hcc system. xxx@yyy.zzz

6. Forwarding your hawaii.edu email 1.Go to http://mail.hawaii.edu 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 theemail address that you would like all your mail to be forwarded to. You may enter more than one email address but be sure that you type only one address per line. 6.Click the Save Changes button.