Email Forwarding Options at MIT

Forwarding Your Email

You can have email that's sent to your MIT email account forwarded to another account. You also have the option of having copies of your forwarded email messages sent to your MIT account (referred to as a "split mailbox"). To forward your email, do one of the following:

• If you are familiar with the Athena Computing environment go to How to forward your future email and follow the instructions for having your email forwarded or for forwarding your email and receiving copies at your MIT account.

• Send email to accounts@mit.edu and request to have your email forwarded and give the new email address. In your request, specify if you want to have copies of your messages sent to your MIT email account.

It may take several hours for the forwarding to take effect.

Note: Forwarded messages still go through IS&T's spam screening filter and are assigned spam scores. You can use the headers to set up filters on your receiving system, if you want to trash messages that receive a high spam score. For more information on the spam score headers, see MIT Spam Screening: Headers.

Email forwarding for Alumni: Infinite Connection

Stop Forwarding Your Email

If you want to stop the forwarding of your email, do one of the following:

• If you are familiar with the Athena Computing environment and have access to it, you can log into Athena and use the chpobox -p command to have stop the forwarding.

• Send email to accounts@mit.edu request to have the forwarding stopped.