Redirecting E-mail

[Paul Howarth]

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 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.

You could use the one your ISP provides for your IP address, e.g.
ppp-70-245-138-232.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>