Hi I am not an expert also but I may have some clues for you,
/etc/aliases control the local server.
For example on my postfix server, account: erwgu user don't exists however
this mail adress works because in /etc/aliases I have such line:
erwgu: admin
thus mail send to erwgu@xxxxxxxxxxx are redirected toward admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
by postfix
What you want to do it's to send mail on your ISP mail, thus a .forward file
on your account should be enough. Just have to put you ISP mail adress in
this plaintext .forward file. For that I think that your local smtp server
has to be able to send message outside from your LAN.
However you should be able under ThunderBird to read your mail on your local
machine. Mail are probably in /var/spool/mail/user. You can read it with
built-in account. It's a maildir format support
Regards
Le Mardi 08 Novembre 2005 19:51, Mike McCarty a écrit :
> I have a simple question which probably has a simple answer, but
> since I am (almost) completely ignorant in this area, I don't know
> how to do it.
>
> 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?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
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