From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 19:50: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1EC37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:49:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA92361; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:49:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001e01c084f0$15f81050$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Caleb Walker" , References: <001601c084ee$bad10fc0$0a01a8c0@cwalk.org> Subject: Re: redirecting mail from root to another user... Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:53:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Please post in plain text, not HTML ] > I have a qpopper, sendmail, and BIND running on my > home machine. 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. It's a great idea. Just add the line "root: cwalker" to /etc/aliases and then run 'newaliases'. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message