Forwarding incoming messages

Suppose you're the boss of a big project, and everyone sends you all the important related e-mail messages. You can tell UNIX to automagically forward these incoming messages to the people who will actually do something about them. Hey, you're the boss, right? As Figure 11.14 shows, all you have to do is create a .forward file.

Figure 11.14. All you have to do is tell UNIX where you want your messages forwarded to.

To forward incoming e-mail messages:

1. 
vi ~/.forward
To begin, type vi at the shell prompt (or the appropriate command for whichever editor you are using), indicate your home directory (with ~/), then ...

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