From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 26 22:20:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A47B37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 282C543E65 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 7819 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2002 05:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 05:19:56 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A3A7DB8; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:18:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:18:31 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Joseph Lephan Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forwarding root mail to user via sendmail Message-ID: <20020827051831.GE21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Joseph Lephan , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20020826234910.A272@houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020826234910.A272@houston.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:49:10 -0500 > From: Joseph Lephan > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: Forwarding root mail to user via sendmail please, keep your lines below 72 chars in length. > I had this enabled by default previously (somehow). But ever since > removing an existing user (apparently mail was forward to this > account), root mail has disappeared. > Unfortunatley, I've read through documents on how to configure > /etc/aliases, among other files, but i don't know the exact > syntax..and i'm too afraid to attempt to make any changes the exact syntax is described in /etc/aliases, and aliases(5). that's man page for aliases in section 5, read with % man 5 aliases after you make your changes, don't forget to run newaliases(1). oh, this is newbies@... you should be posting technical questions to questions@freebsd.org -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 7:13AM up 6 days, 13:06, 16 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message