UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a unix account on university's servers. On their servers I have a mailbox in pine. I want to auto-forward messages from university to my mail in gmail. I opened the putty and created .forward file:
pico .forward
myname@gmail.com

and pressed .^x to save the file. Since then I stopped getting mails to the pine and they are not forwarded to my gmail. What am I doing wrong?

I don't know why you are not getting the mail in your gmail account. Have you checked your gmail spam folder? Have you checked that your SysAdmin allows emails to be sent to gmail or other external accounts?

Assuming your Unix username is myuname, and your gmail address is myname@gmail.com put this in your .mailrc:

Code:

myuname,myname@gmail.com

This should send your email to your Unix account as well as your gmail account.
Once you have tested that you are receiving emails again try testing that you can send emails to your gmail account.

Andrew