Forwarding Email from Electron

To set up forwarding on electron, first log into the online mail setup pages, and click on the Change Forwarding button.

The screen you will see will have a text entry box that will show you the contents of you .forward file. If you don't have a .forward file yet, it will say: "denied No such file or directory" in the box. Don't worry about this: just fill in the settings you want, and the mail setup program will create one for you.

To set up forwarding of your email, you enter a comma separated list of the addresses you want to forward to in the text entry box. If you also want to keep a copy of the email on Electron, you should include your email address on Electron in this list as well. For example:

         me@electron.mit.edu, you@someother.server.com, mrbush@whitehouse.com

would forward all of my mail to my accounts on someother.server.com and whitehouse.com and leave me a copy on electron.mit.edu.

For more details on using .forward files, see this website I found: Mail forwarding using .forward files