Re: [gentoo-user] Redirect inbox to other mail (Sendmail)

[John Jolet]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:58, Delca wrote:
> i mispelled my problem, sorry :P
>
> i want to send all arrived mails at /var/spool/mail/john to for
> example john334@×××××.com or john332@×××××××.com.
>
> i think the formail is a good option, but i don't know how to tell
> sendmail to send the mails! :( I tryed running your command and there
> was a little problem, some mails were sent again to all users (i've
> set up a 'to all' account i mean.. one mail that sends to every user
> an email) and i just want to be redirected to one mail account in
> particular.
>
> sorry again!
>
> Santiago
>
um, that's just an alias.... in /etc/mail/aliases, put "john:	
john334@×××××.com, john332@×××××××.com"
save the file and run "newaliases"
> On 5/2/06, Jarry <jarry@×××.net> wrote:
> > Delca wrote:
> > > The problem is that i don't know how to send all mails that arrived to
> > > /var/spool/mail/username to other mail..
> > >
> > > i.e.: i want to send all mails at /var/spool/mail/john to
> > > john@××××××××.com.
> >
> > cat /var/spool/mail/${USER} | formail +1 -ds sendmail -oem ${USER}
> >
> > I don't know if it is working, it is not my idea. But you must have
> > alias defined before, otherwise it would be delivered probably to
> > the same mailbox (maybe infinite loop?)...
> >
> > Jarry
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