receiving mails to my mailbox

[Kenan Erdey]

hi;

i want check the mails that are sent to root with a mail client. sendmail is running on the host. what should i do ?

thanks.

[Yogeeraj_1 · Accepted solution]

hi,

You may wish to configure your server to forward the mails to your mailbox. If you already have a mail server, you can just forward the mails to the smtp address.

for more info see:

http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/HP-UX/man5/aliases.5.html

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Bill Hassell]

If you want to read the email on your HP-UX system, you can run elm which is an interactive mail manager. Just like vi, it takes a while to learn how to use it, so you might consider auto-forwarding root's email to your address on a PC.

[Geoff Wild]

Modify /etc/mail/aliases

# Local aliases
root : youremail@yourdoamin.com

Then, execute the newaliases command.

Rgds...Geoff

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Kenan,

You can set .forward in your home directory to redirect mails wherever you want. Also, make sure you are able to contact the external mail server you forward.

-Arun