Redirecting E-mail

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:17 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 08.11.2005 schrieb Mike McCarty um 19:51:
> 
> > I have a game which I like to play on my machine. I have compiled it
> > and it runs fine. Upon completion (winning) of the game, the game sends
> > e-mail to the user name. This works fine, but I don't use the mail
> > program for reading mail, I use Thunderbird. So... how do I redirect
> > the local mail system used by mail to send e-mail sent to jmccarty
> > to my ISP mail address Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net?
> > 
> > I could just try fiddling the source and see whether it works, but
> > ISTM that this should be a simple thing. Maybe /etc/aliases?
> 
> > Mike
> 
> Right, set an alias. Be aware that this of course will affect any mail
> directed to the local user.
> 
> jmccarty:               Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
> 
> You need to run "newaliases" command to rebuild the aliases.db and thus
> activating that change.
> 
> An alternate is to use a ~/.forward file which just contains the target
> email address. Set permissions to 600 for the .forward file.

You may also need to configure your mail server (sendmail by default) to
use a real domain name (as opposed to say, localhost.localdomain), or
you may find that sbc's mail servers reject the mail.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>