Forwarding Mail - Revision history

Steve410: /* When Your CS Account Is Removed... */

2023-07-26T17:37:13Z

When Your CS Account Is Removed...

2023-07-26T17:36:09Z

INTRO

2022-08-24T15:27:55Z

Things to be Aware of

2022-08-24T15:09:15Z

2021-11-12T14:58:27Z

Consider Not Forwarding Your CS Email To Outside of JHU

2021-11-12T14:57:46Z

Consider Not Forwarding Your CS Email To Outside of JHU

2021-11-12T14:57:27Z

INTRO

2021-11-05T17:57:32Z

UPDATE - September, 2021: Current Problems Automatically Forwarding Your CS Email -- Some Emails Might Go Missing

2021-11-05T17:57:09Z

UPDATE - September, 2021: Current Problems Automatically Forwarding Your CS Email -- Some Emails Might Go Missing

2021-11-05T17:49:55Z

Consider Not Forwarding Your CS Email To Outside of JHU

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 :'''IMPORTANT!'''  When your affiliation with the CS department is complete and your CS account is removed (See:   [[CS Account Removal]]), '''''any email forwarding that you have configured will be removed.'''''
-:'''''CS is no longer be fowarding emails''''' for those no longer currently affiliated with the CS department.
+:'''''CS is no longer forwarding emails''''' for those no longer currently affiliated with the CS department.
 [[category:Mail]]

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 :When you receive a CS Linux account, you're also receiving an email address in the form of '''''yourusername''@cs.jhu.edu'''
-:You might choose to automatically forward any email you receive at this CS address to some other preferred address (for example, to your @jhu.edu address or to an address outside of JHU.)   And we do allow you to configure your CS email to automatically forward, however...
+:You might choose to automatically forward any email you receive at this CS address to some other preferred address (for example, to your @jhu.edu address or to an address outside of JHU.)   And currently (subject to change) we do allow you to configure your CS email to automatically forward, however...
 ==Consider ''Not'' Forwarding Your CS Email To ''Outside'' of JHU==

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 == Things to be Aware of ==
-:Unrelated to the earlier description of an email forwarding problem that started Sept, 2021, we have also noticed that Gmail sometimes ignores email messages that have been forwarded back to the account that sent them.  Most of the time this isn't usually a problem, but if you're forwarding to a Gmail account and you want to test the forwarding, you should ''not'' use the same Gmail account to send your test email.  Test it with an email from another source, or have a friend send you an email.
+:We have noticed that Gmail sometimes ignores email messages that have been forwarded back to the account that sent them.  Most of the time this isn't usually a problem, but if you're forwarding to a Gmail account and you want to test the forwarding, you should ''not'' use the same Gmail account to send your test email.  Test it with an email from another source, or have a friend send you an email.
 ==When Your CS Account Is Removed...==

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 :However, for some of you, this might not be feasible.   At this time, CS email can be forwarded to both other JHU-based addresses '''''or''''' to sites outside of JHU.
 ==Setting Up Forwarding For Your CS Address==
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 :: then...
-* In the top level of your home directory, create a '''.forward''' file (don't forget the "'''.'''" ) using an editor.
+* In the top level of your home directory, create a '''<code>.forward</code>''' file (don't forget the "'''.'''" ) using an editor.
-* Put your preferred email account address as the only line in the <tt>.forward</tt> file.
+* Put your preferred email account address as the only line in the <code>.forward</code> file.
 * Save changes.
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 * Run the following command:
-:: '''chmod 644 .forward'''
+:: <kbd>chmod 644 .forward</kbd>
-::(Again, don't forget the ''dot'' in '''.forward''' )
+::(Again, don't forget the ''dot'' in '''<code>.forward</code>''' )
 :Now, incoming mail to your CS address should be forwarded to your preferred address.

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 :Both JHU and WSE IT have highly recommended you '''do not''' automatically forward your JHU-based email to '''''outside''' of JHU''.  Please refer to [https://wseit.engineering.jhu.edu/redir-email/ WSE's article on redirecting email].
-:However, for some of you, this might not be feasible.   At this time, CS email can be forwarded to both other JHU-based addresses or to sites outside of JHU.
+:However, for some of you, this might not be feasible.   At this time, CS email can be forwarded to both other JHU-based addresses '''''or''''' to sites outside of JHU.
 ==<span style="color:#ff0000">''UPDATE'' - September, 2021: Current Problems With Automatically Forwarding Your CS Email -- ''Some Emails Might Go Missing''</span>==

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 :However, for some of you, this might not be feasible.   At this time, CS email can be forwarded to both other JHU-based addresses or to sites outside of JHU.
-==<span style="color:#ff0000">''UPDATE'' - September, 2021: Current Problems Automatically Forwarding Your CS Email -- ''Some Emails Might Go Missing''</span>==
+==<span style="color:#ff0000">''UPDATE'' - September, 2021: Current Problems With Automatically Forwarding Your CS Email -- ''Some Emails Might Go Missing''</span>==
 :Sometime around September, 2021, JHU had updated their DMARC policy in such a way that it has intermittently affected how our CS mail server automatically forwards emails.  While incoming email that is automatically forwarded from your CS account should arrive safely to a JHU-based email address, that might not always be the case for emails automatically forwarded to sites outside of JHU, e.g. GMail and others.  Those changes at JHU have led to an incompatibility with our mail server system software.  Under certain conditions, our mail server software may alter parts of the automatically forwarded message in a way that interferes with the authentication that JHU now adds to those messages.  This means that some emails arriving to your CS account, which you have configured to forward automatically to Gmail (or to other non-JHU domains) might get rewritten in such a way that it will get bounced back.

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 ==Consider ''Not'' Forwarding Your CS Email To ''Outside'' of JHU==
-Both JHU and WSE IT have highly recommended you '''do not''' automatically forward your JHU-based email to ''outside of JHU''.  Please refer to [https://wseit.engineering.jhu.edu/redir-email/ WSE's article on redirecting email].
+:Both JHU and WSE IT have highly recommended you '''do not''' automatically forward your JHU-based email to ''outside of JHU''.  Please refer to [https://wseit.engineering.jhu.edu/redir-email/ WSE's article on redirecting email].
-However, for some of you, this might not be feasible.   At this time, CS email can be forwarded to both other JHU-based addresses or to sites outside of JHU.
+:However, for some of you, this might not be feasible.   At this time, CS email can be forwarded to both other JHU-based addresses or to sites outside of JHU.
 ==<span style="color:#ff0000">UPDATE - September, 2021: Current Problems Automatically Forwarding Your CS Email -- ''Some Emails Might Go Missing''</span>==