Set up a vacation message for your Barnard email
Once you begin using your replacement email, you might want to set up a vacation message for your original Barnard email account, which will notify anyone who sends you email of your new address (or that you will no longer be checking your Barnard account -- it can say whatever you want, like a voicemail).
In order to set this up, you must have PuTTY, (unfortunately, you cannot set up a vacation message through eBear at this time. Forwarded messages to Columbia accounts will not trigger vacation responses, should you set one up in Cubmail). You can use PuTTY on any lab computer or you can download it through CUIT.
Click here for a tutorial on how to configure PuTTY, if you have not already done so.
- At the $ prompt in PuTTY, type vacation and hit Enter, like so:
- You will be directed to a standard vacation message that looks like this:
- Hit the I key in order to be able to edit the message informing senders of your new email address:
- The text after "Subject" is the text that will appear in the subject of your vacation message. Everything after that will be the body of your message. "$SUBJECT" will insert the subject of the email your vacation message is replying to into your message.
- When you are done editing your vacation message, press the Control and C keys
simultaneously. Now type the following to save the file and activate the message:
:w<enter>
- Type the following to quit:
:q<enter>
- You can now logout of eclipse and exit PuTTY.
In the event that you wish to remove your vacation message
- At the $ prompt in PuTTY, type the following:
rm .forward <enter>
- Repeat for
rm .vacation.msg <enter>, and for
rm .vacation.db <enter>