Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:29:50 -0700 From: Doug Wellington <doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <9604221829.AA04018@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> In-Reply-To: "Your message of Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:46:09 -0400." <199604221646.MAA10587@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Previously: ># more /root/.forward >henrich >---- > >If I send mail to root@mymachine, it goes to /var/mail/root, instead of being >forwarded. root's homedir is /root... This makes no sense! Might I suggest that you use an alias instead? Edit the file /etc/aliases and then run the newaliases command. For example, my aliases file looks like: MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster Postmaster: root root: doug nobody: /dev/null In theory this is more secure as well... BTW, did you mention which version of sendmail you were using? -Doug Doug Wellington doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov System and Network Administrator US Geological Survey Tucson, AZ Project Office (602) 670-6821 x26 According to proposed Federal guidelines, this message is a "non-record". Hmm, I wonder if _everything_ I say is a "non-record"... The hardest thing in the world is to truly think for oneself. It is amazing how many people have let angst replace their self confidence.
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