Forward emails from my CAS account to my other email accounts automatically

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How to Forward emails from my CAS account to my other email accounts automatically

Everyone who has an account with CAS has an email box. The email box is ACCOUNT_LOGIN_NAME@mcmaster.cas.ca. If you do not want to check this mail box often, you can have emails sent to this mailbox automatically forwarded to your other email boxes.

A file named .forward under your home directory can make all the messages sent to your CAS email box be automatically forwarded to another email box. If there is no such a file, create one for yourself.

Edit this file using a text editor and put the email addresses to which you would like to forward your emails from your CAS account. Then all the emails to your CAS email account will be automatically forwarded(redirected) to the specified email accounts.

If you want to keep a copy of message in your CAS email box, add "\YOUR_Login_Name," (without quotation marks) before your forwarding address.

An example of .forward file:

\johndoe, \johndoe@univmail.mcmaster.ca