Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:33:37 +0100 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to Forward All Root Mail Using Sendmail? Message-ID: <20011002193337.A35268@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20011002133058.U478-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>; from marco@radzinschi.com on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:32:31PM -0400 References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0FC@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> <20011002133058.U478-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:32:31PM -0400, Marco Radzinschi wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > I want to have all mail for root on one FBSD box be forwarded to another
> > address. I have tried creating a .forward file in / containing the email
> > address to forward to but this isn't working. What else do I need to do?
> > I'm not finding anything relating to this at sendmail.org.
> Create a .forward file in the /root directory of the box you want mail
> forwarded from, containing the address to be forwarded to.
I doubt that this is the preferred way to do, since this involves (with
exim, at least) the MTA/MDA setting it's euid to 0, which while not
a massive security hole in itself, is unnecessary and therefore probably
undesirable.
A snatch of the output from `exim -bt -d12 root` the way you suggest to
back me up here :
set uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 egid=0
successful stat of /root/.
/root/.forward not found
restored uid=0 gid=0 euid=70 egid=6
And the way myself (and others) suggested this isn't necessary.
Ceri
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