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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 01:08:23 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Rick Moore <rick@geckobot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Root mail forwarding under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000908010823.A48583@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <003701c018f3$804578d0$04fea8c0@patches>; from rick@geckobot.com on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:46:07AM -0700
References:  <003701c018f3$804578d0$04fea8c0@patches>

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On Thu 2000-09-07 (10:46), Rick Moore wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> I'm sorry-- I know this is a lame question and I'm sure tons of people do
> this but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere.  When it comes to
> email administration, I'm a newbie.
> 
> I have a network of FreeBSD systems and I don't want to run around to each
> one and check root mail.  Instead, I'd like the mail handler to
> automatically forward it all to this email account.  I've tried adding
> 
> root    rick@geckobot.com
> 
> and
> 
> root@whatevermachine    rick@geckobot.com
> 
> followed by "make" to rebuild the database and HUP to sendmail, but mail to
> root still doesn't seem to get forwarded.
> 
> Is there an easy way to do this?

Edit /etc/aliases, and add 'root: rick@geckobot.com' to it.  Then type
'newaliases'.  It should "just work".

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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