RESOLVED: Redirecting E-mail

[Mike McCarty]

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 at sbcglobal.net?
>>>>
>>>> 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 at sbcglobal.net
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> Anyway, I recall using .forward under Solaris many years ago. I'll give
> it a try.
> 
> Mike

[Saving .forward]
[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ cat .forward
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net

[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ chmod 600 .forward
[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ mail
No mail for jmccarty
[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$ mail jmccarty
Subject: Test of Forwarding
If you got this, then good for you!
.
Cc:
[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$  mail
No mail for jmccarty
[jmccarty at Presario-1 jmccarty]$

A couple of minutes later it appeared in my Inbox.

Thanks all!

Mike
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