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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx? > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 20:13:33 up 10 days, 18:13, load average: 0.20, 0.15, 0.06
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