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  • You can create a file named .forward in your home directory (remember, everyone who has a mail account, also has a Shell account) to have Email automatically forwarded to another address. For example after logging in:

    $ echo my_other_address@verisign.com > ~/.forward
  • Exim also supports specially formatted .forward files to do limited processing of incoming Email, such as save to a certain file, or forward or drop. As currently set up on the WLUG MailServer, such filtering is supported. See EximFilter for hints and examples.
  • If you're using MozillaMail and IMAP to connect through the FireWall to the server you may need to add imap.wlug.org.nz to your "No Proxies for" list (under Preferences/Advanced/Proxies). This tells you mailer to connect directly to the server rather than through the proxy.
  • When you log into WebMail you may need to use username rather than username@wlug.org.nz (this differs from other SquirrelMail setups). The feedback when you make this mistake is a little obscure (i.e. several lines of the PHP internal error messages and then Unknown user or password incorrect.)
  • Sometimes reloading produces PHP error messages. This appears to be related to session TimeOut?. The solution is to check for new mail by clicking on your inbox instead of reloading.
  • There is a bug in the WebMail whereby it occasionally forgets who you are (maybe it loses the cookie?). If this bug were only present in WebMail I'd blame it on WebMail, but it also happens to long-running wiki edits, which suggests that the problem may be something more deeply rooted.

    This seems to be resolved now... I think it is PHP's session handling stuff. We upped the timeout to 60 minutes, and haven't seen problems since --JohnMcPherson

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CategoryMailNotes