Sets a forwarding address for your mail. After you enter the SET FORWARD command, the address you specify will receive mail messages. The default you establish with the SET FORWARD command remains in effect until you enter the SET NOFORWARD command. The SHOW FORWARD command displays the name of the specified forwarding address. If you have SYSNAM privilege, you can set and show forwarding addresses for other users. Format SET FORWARD address SET NOFORWARD SHOW FORWARD
1 – Parameter
address Indicates the address (NODE::USERNAME) to which your mail is forwarded.
2 – Qualifiers
2.1 /ALL
The /ALL qualifier lists forwarding information or displays a message if the specified user does not have forwarding enabled. You must have SYSNAM privilege to use the /ALL qualifier. The /ALL qualifier is valid only when used with the /USER qualifier.
2.2 /USER
/USER=user-name Indicates the name of another user for whom you are setting or showing a forwarding address. You can use the /USER qualifier only if you have SYSNAM privilege. With the SHOW FORWARD command, there are two ways to show a user's forwarding address: you can specify the user name or you can use the wildcard characters (* or %) to search for names with a particular string in common. By default length of the user name is 31 characters long. Set Bit 5 of DCL_CTLFLAGS to avail this longer user name length of 255 characters long. NOTE Once this bit is set, user name length is set to maximum of 255 characters long. Even if this bit is cleared, the behavior remains unchanged, that is, supports user name length of 255 characters long, but there is no way to reset it to 31 characters long.
3 – Examples
1.MAIL> SET FORWARD NEXUS::LARS MAIL> SHOW FORWARD Your mail is being forwarded to NEXUS::LARS. MAIL> This example shows how a user named LARS establishes a forwarding address on node NEXUS with the SET FORWARD command and displays the forwarding address with the SHOW FORWARD command. 2.MAIL> SHOW FORWARD/ALL/USER=C* Username Forwarding address CARTON VIOLET::CARTON COLLINS None CRUTHERS GREEN::CRUTHERS CULLIN GRAY::CULLIN This example shows a wildcard search for all users whose names begin with the letter C. Because the /ALL qualifier has been specified, all users are listed, even if they have not entered a forwarding address. This is the case for user COLLINS. Because COLLINS has not specified a forwarding address, None appears under the Forwarding address heading. 3.MAIL> SHOW FORWARD/USER=BENNETT BENNETT has not set a forwarding address. This example shows how to display the forwarding address of user BENNETT. Because BENNETT has not set a forwarding address, the message is output.