Email forwarding can now also be setup through the physics directory. This allows users without a physics email account to still receive essential physics system mail such as quota notifications. The address specified in the directory takes precedence over any forwarding specified in the webmail system.

To change your directory forwarding address, start by logging in to the physics website at www.physics.umn.edu and locate your profile in www.physics.umn.edu/people/. Click on your name to bring up your profile and then click the Edit directory information link. Update the Email Forward field and click Update Directory once finished. This changes to directory forwarding can take up to 30 minutes to take effect.

Email forwarding and vacation or out-of-office messages can be set up through the Physics webmail system (remember, though, that directory forwarding takes precedence over anything set up in webmail: any webmail filters will be ignored if directory forwarding is specified).

First log into Physics webmail, then

• Click on Filters
• Click Add a New Rule
• Under Condition click on the box that says Header after the first bullet point, and change it to say All.
• Under Action choose Redirect to the following email address: and enter your email address in the box that appears.
• Click Add New Rule at the bottom

You can also set up a “vacation” message, which will be sent back to anyone who sends you mail while you are away for any reason. It will only send the reply once to any one person, and it will not reply to mailing lists.

• Click on Filters
• Click Add a New Rule
• Under condition click on the box that says Header after the first bullet point, and change it to say All.
• Under Action choose Vacation and enter your vacation message (or you can use the standard one which is already supplied).
• Click Add New Rule at the bottom

• Click on Filters
• Select the filtering rule you want to delete using the check box
• Click Delete found after “Action for Selected Rules:”