Proper Mail Forwarding

From PACSINFO

As of late, users of the Physics email system prefer to use outside email systems to read their email. From SPAM control to a better web email interface, providers such as Google or Yahoo have the deep pockets to give you the tools you want in trade for your marketing information.

However, by using .forward files some providers (especially comcast) tag email coming from Physics as SPAM. This eventually causes legitimate email to be blocked by these email providers. In order to mitigate this problem, we would like all users in Physics to use the following .procmailrc script instead of a .forward file.

Instructions

1. Copy the following text into your favorite editor on the Unix platform. Replace the email address in this text with your own and save the file to your email directory in /phys/mail/users/ (e.g. /phys/mail/users/richardc/.procmailrc is the user richardc procmail forwarding file)

## Example .procmailrc script
##

## Delete messages marked SPAM 
##
:0
* ^Subject: \[SPAM\]
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
/dev/null

## Forward mail to prefered external email provider
## (Substitute your email address below)
##
:0
! mylogin@gmailoryahoo.com

2. Next, remove your .forward file, and that should be it!

3. We strongly recommend testing this immediately to make sure your email is forwarding properly.