Corvid — Email Forwarding Address Attribute

Also Known As

Implemented internally in LDAP as mailRoutingAddress attribute

• Email Routing Address
• Mail Forwarding Address, Email Forwarding Address

Description

The mailRoutingAddress attribute specifies where the local system should deliver email addressed to your account. This address can be local or remote.

Example

Harry Bovik, somewhat behind the times, still retrieves his email from foo.gp.cs.cmu.edu , which is the host specified in his current mailRoutingAddress . When his IMAP account is set up on the imap server, however, he intends to change his mailRoutingAddress value to bovik+@imap.srv.cs.cmu.edu .

Limits

The mailRoutingAddress field is not required, but if an account does not have the value set, the email system will never accept email for this account. If the field does have a value, it can only be a single email address. The value must conform to the email addresses specification RFC2822 , and we recommend the length be less than 60 characters. We do not support multiple email addresses nor multiple values in the mailRoutingAddress attribute.

Recommended Values

The mailRoutingAddress value can be a local or remote address and need not specify an address on an SCS Facilities machine. It can be your gmail.com address or a Yahoo! mail address.

How To Change

You can modify any of the three address attributes, "Preferred Email," "Email Forwarding," or "Email Local" via the SCS Corvid lookup page . Alternately, use the Jeeves service. Contact <help@cs.cmu.edu> if you encounter difficulty or have questions.