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From: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com>
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	Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: redirecting mail from root to another user...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff Sarginson [mailto:cliff@raggedclown.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:03 PM
> To: Siegbert Baude; Cliff Sarginson; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: redirecting mail from root to another user...
>=20
>=20
> > Hi Cliff,
> >=20
> > > Didn't you get answers to this earlier ?
> > Yes, I did. And in one of them stood, that the author=20
> didn=B4t know about
> > other solutions. So I just added a different one.
> >=20
> > > Use an entry in the aliase's file .. a la the advice=20
> written at the
> > > top of it ! I am curiou sto know why you think it is a bad idea..
> >=20
> > I don=B4t think alias is a bad idea (and only to prevent any =
people,
> read> ing
> > the archives in the future, that there is at least one guy with =
this
> > opinion, I=B4m posting this to both the list and you). Pluralism is =
a
> nic> e
> > thing anyway, isn=B4t it?
>=20
> Oh of course. As they say in England "there is more than one=20
> way to skin a cat".
> I was just curious about why someone would think a .forward file is
> safer than an alias... well, there are millions of things I=20
> will never know,
> I will just add that to the list of them :)
>=20
> Cliff

I'm not saying a .forward file is safer than an alias. I'm just
typing in what I did to do this.  Easy, painless and does the job.

PeTe


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