What is email Forwarding Mail forwarding works the same way as forwarding your phone calls.  If you already have an email account you may choose to forward your kent.edu account to your current account.   Here's how it works.   If you have an email address already.... "jsmith@aol.com".  You can forward your mail from (kent.edu)  jsmith@kent.edu to (another email address) jsmith@aol.com Forwarding is a way of sending email to an address other than the one it is addressed to.     To start your email forwarding go to this site below, enter your username jsmith, email password and follow the on screen instructions. You have to be on campus or have Kent State as your Internet service provider in order to use the pages for changing your password or putting a forward on your account. If you are on Campus click this link to get started: http://www.personal.kent.edu./forward.html If you are off Campus: Connect to the Internet. If you have a Macintosh, use your telnet application. If you have a Windows PC: To Telnet: Dial in to get a connection through your Internet provider. Select Start Select Run Type: telnet mail.kent.edu a telnet login screen will appear that looks like something like this: AIX Version 4 (C) Copyrights by IBM and by others 1982, 1996. login: The telnet window opens. Log in using your Kent State email userid (the part of your email address to the left of @) and your Kent State email password. If you get any "greeting" messages, just exit out of them. You should eventually get the $ prompt. Type: menu <enter> You will get the main menu. Use the TAB key to move the highlight to UTILITIES. <enter> Select the relevant utility and follow the instructions on the screen. After you're done, press the LEFT-POINTING CURSOR-ARROW KEY to get back to the main menu. Type q to quit. Type y to confirm quitting. At the $ prompt, type: exit <enter>