From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 7:40:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C27337B699 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14L5Ym-000M4q-00; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:40:40 +0000 To: "Siegbert Baude" , "Caleb Walker" , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: redirecting mail from root to another user... Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:40:40 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi Caleb, > > > I am wondering what the best way to redirect all mail that gets sent to > root to > > get sent to my other user which is cwalker. I am not sure but, setting> up > > an alias in the alias file doesnt seem like a good idea. If it is let > me > know. > > I think you can also create a file named ".forward" in your root´s home > directory, which has the mail address, you want all mails to be forwarded > to, as the only line in it. A long time I used this, so I´m not complet> ely > sure, if it was on a FreeBSD system. At least it was on a Unix of some > flavor, hope it still works :-) > Didn't you get answers to this earlier ? Use an entry in the aliase's file .. a la the advice written at the top of it ! I am curiou sto know why you think it is a bad idea.. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message