From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 8:49:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BF437B403 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA74992; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:49:35 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Drew Tomlinson" , "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: How to Forward All Root Mail Using Sendmail? Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:52:15 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0FC@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Late response here, but a reason why I prefer using aliases over .forward files is that the MTA is supposed to check aliases for the potential of a mail 'tight loop'. This is where 'a' forwards to 'b', and 'b' forwards to 'a'. With .forward files any poor email sent to either 'a' or 'b' would sit and spin forever in cyberspace!!! But the alias expansion should recognise the problem. I _think_ it will be delivered to the last destination before recursion occurs. Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Sent: 02 October 2001 18:37 To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: How to Forward All Root Mail Using Sendmail? 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. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message