From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 14:00:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8463D16A4DE for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA2413C4A8 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 73527 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Oct 2007 14:00:00 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 13.279961 secs); 18 Oct 2007 14:00:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 18 Oct 2007 13:59:46 -0000 Message-ID: <471766D7.7080909@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:59:51 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tonylabarbara@aol.com References: <8C9DFA34D82171D-C6C-72A7@webmail-me13.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8C9DFA34D82171D-C6C-72A7@webmail-me13.sysops.aol.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How To Change Email Addr? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:00:02 -0000 tonylabarbara@aol.com wrote: > Hi; > I need to update the email address to which emails from the server are sent (root@server.name, cron stuff, etc.). I created a file: > /root/.foreward > and added the new address, but that didn't do it? How? If you are running sendmail, check for the root: line in: # /etc/mail/aliases Change the second parameter to what email address you want root's mail to go to, and then run: # newaliases Steve