.TH CHPOBOX 1 "5 Feb 1988" "Project Athena" \" RCSID: $HeadURL: svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/moira/trunk/moira/man/chpobox.1 $ $Id: chpobox.1 3956 2010-01-05 20:56:56Z zacheiss $" .SH NAME chpobox \- change address at which user receives mail .SH SYNOPSIS .TP 8 chpobox [ username ] .TP 8 chpobox [ \-s address | \-S address | \-p ] [ \-u username ] .SH DESCRIPTION Your post office box is what determines where you will receive mail. It can be of several types: .I POP, IMAP, SMTP, SPLIT or .IR NONE . In the first use of this command, the post office box of the user whose name corresponds to the single argument .I username (or your own name if .I username is not specified) is displayed. In the second use, this command sets the actual address that will receive mail sent to .I username@MIT.EDU (where .I username is your own name if you have not specified it on the command line). It should be used if you want to change where you will receive mail. The .I chpobox command is used instead of the file .I .forward, which would be used with standard UNIX mail. In order to change the address that receives mail sent to .I username@MIT.EDU, use the .B -s option. Specifically, to reroute your mail to the address .I name@host, you would issue the command .nf .nj chpobox -s name@host .fi To split mail between your local post office box and a remote address, use the .B -S option. To restore your post office box to its original Athena default, use the .B -p flag. This will set your mailbox to the last POP or IMAP server it was using. .PP Only one of .B -p or .B -s or .B -S may be used at a time. Note that the actual change may take up to a day to propogate to the mail hub. .SH NOTE When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some reason you don't want to have the hostname canonicalized, put .B just the hostname in double-quotes. For example, the command .nf .nj chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"cd.mit.edu\\" .fi will not be canonicalized to jrhacker@ls.mit.edu, as it would otherwise. Also note that the double-quotes were preceded by backslashes to get them past the shell. .SH SEE ALSO moira(1), Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan.