On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:57 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > 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. > > And how do I do that? I don't own a domain name. You could use the one your ISP provides for your IP address, e.g. ppp-70-245-138-232.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
