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@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. 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. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
