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From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@ardent-hacker.net>
To: "Rick Moore" <rick@geckobot.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Root mail forwarding under FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:19:40 -0500
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You should be adding the information to your aliases file. 

When you're done,  you type newaliases at the command prompt.

Eric

On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you 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?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
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