Important! New students as of May 2009 will be using our latest email system, WhitMail, powered by Google. More information about WhitMail and how to use it can be found in our WhitMail FAQ. For information on how to setup email forwarding from WhitMail please visit Google's Forwarding Guide.

Important! Staff who have switched to Zimbra and are no longer on the Marcus network should follow Zimbra's Forwarding Guide. More information about WhitMail and how to use it can be found in our Zimbra FAQ.

You can set your Whitman E-mail account to automatically forward all incoming messages to another E-mail address of your choosing. 

To setup the automatic forwarding, you will need to use a Telnet program to connect to faculty and staff mail server (marcus) or the student mail server (students).  There are many different Telnet clients that can be used to connect to these servers.  The simplest way to connect is to use a Web based Telnet program called MindTerm that is available to you via your respective web portals (listed as "SSH to Students" and "SSH to Marcus").

1. If you are a student, use MindTerm to Students. If you are a faculty or staff, use MindTerm to Marcus
2. When either "SSH Server/Alias:students.whitman.edu" or "SSH Server/Alias:marcus.whitman.edu" is displayed, press <Enter>
3. Enter your E-mail User Name and press <Enter>
4. Enter your E-mail password and press <Enter>
5. Type echo myemail@somewhereelse.com > .qmail -- substitute the E-mail address you wish your Whitman E-mail to be forwarded to for the "myemail@somewhereelse.com" in the above example.
6. Press <Enter>
7. Type logout and press <Enter> to exit MindTerm.

Stopping/Removing E-mail Forwarding

1. Again, if you are a student, use MindTerm on Students; if you are a faculty or staff, use MindTerm on Marcus
2. When either "SSH Server/Alias:students.whitman.edu" or "SSH Server/Alias:marcus.whitman.edu" is displayed, press <Enter>
3. Enter your E-mail User Name and press <Enter>
4. Enter your password and press <Enter>
5. Type rm .qmail and press <Enter>
6. Type logout and press <Enter> to exit MindTerm

Your E-mail is no longer being forwarded and will start collecting in your Whitman account.