Configuring a Unix Account to Forward Emails

(originally written by Glenn Hoffman for IT classes)
Every Unix account has an email address.

You can forward email messages sent to your Unix account to another account if you do the following:
  1. Log in to your Unix account
    You will now be in your home directory.
  2. Use a text editor to create the file .forward
    The first character in the file name must be .
    This will make the file "invisible" unless you use ls -a.
    You can use the nano text editor for this purpose.
    You will find instructions on using nano here.
  3. Type in your email address
    This should be an email address that you check frequently.
  4. Save and quit
  5. Send a message to yourself
    Send yourself a message addressed to YOUR_UNIX_ACCOUNT_NAME@cs.umb.edu
    So if I (Chris Kelly) were sending a message to myself in order to test my .forward file I would send the message to 
                ckelly@cs.umb.edu
    Perform this test to make sure you have set things up correctly.
  6. So use your UMB email account to test your .forward file
For some reason, it appears that this test will not work for mail sent from gmail.

Instead of testing from a gmail account, try testing it from your UMB email account.