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From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@nc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I have sendmail forward emails from root...
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michael E. Mercer wrote:

> I've tried quite a few things and just can't seem to get
> sendmail to forward emails generated by root processes to
> go to "mmercer@nc.rr.com".
>
> I am running 4.9-Stable.
>
> How am I supposed to configure this?
>
> I have added a line to /etc/mail/aliases
> root: mmercer@nc.rr.com

Did you run 'make aliases' to update the database afterwards?

KeS