Let's say your name is Steven Bellisandagorapahockey and your login id on math is sbellis and you want the e-mail you get on your math account to get forwarded to an account you like better, thebigkahuna@hotmail.com Just create a file called .forward in your home directory on math containing the single line thebigkahuna@hotmail.com and the e-mail that comes to sbellis@math.purdue.edu will automatically get forwarded to thebigkahuna@hotmail.com. If you want a copy of the e-mail that comes to math to stay at math AND get forwarded to thebigkahuna, you can put these lines in your math .forward file: \sbellis thebigkahuna@hotmail.com (The "\" is important. It prevents an infinite loop of e-mail forwarding.) If you are going away and you want to respond to all your e-mail with an automated "I'll read your message when I get back" message, just type vacation at a UNIX prompt and follow the instrucitons. The vacation program will create a .vacation.msg file and a .forward file. The .forward file will look like this: \sbellis, "|/usr/bin/vacation sbellis" If you want to give an automated vacation respponse, keep a copy of all your incoming e-mail at math and forward another copy to your hotmail account, just edit the .forward file to read \sbellis, "|/usr/bin/vacation sbellis" thebigkahuna@hotmail.com If you don't like your e-mail address at math, you can set up an alias that you like better at the PUCC MAIL*HUB. For example, sbellis@math.purdue.edu could set up an address of kahuna@purdue.edu You could then arrange for mail that is sent to kahuna@purdue.edu to get forwarded to sbellis@math.purdue.edu. See http://labinfo.cc.purdue.edu/ and click on "Account Summary" for details on how to do this.