Email Setup

[Young C. Jun]

I'd like to set an email account to forward email automatically to another email.

I mean, as soon as root get an any email, Can Root forward it to my email account?

Can I do that?

TIA

[Brian M. Fisher]

In the $HOME directory of the user whose mail you would like forwarded, create a file named .forward
Include in it the address to forward mail to.

Brian
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[Scott D. Allen · Accepted solution]

You can setup aliases for root in /etc/aliases and run newaliases.

root: jsmith,mjones@ctinet.com

--Scott

[Alan Riggs]

Hit reply too soon. The advantage of this over /etc/aliases is that these files are owned by each individual user. Forwards can therefore be set up and modified without requiring root authority, and they take effect immediately, without requiring sendmail to re-read the aliases file.

[Alan Riggs]

You can also edit the file in /ver/mail/

Making line 1 read "Forward to " does the trick.

[David Rodman]

Sure what you want is to create a file named ".forward" in the home
directory of the user. For root this would be the / directory.
The contents of the file should be the addresses of all of the users to get
the mail.
For instance "me@foobar.com root"

You may note that I put root on the forward list. This creates a copy to send to me
ans leaves a copy in the root mail box. Sendmail is smart enough not to
create a mailloop from this.

for more read up on sendmail.