Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists <lists@rheel.co.nz mailto:lists@rheel.co.nz> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running Centos 5.4
I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file
I need to send this all to another address (preferrably external but
local would possibly do)

I have searched a lot but can't find any way to do this. I have set it
so future emails get forwarded to my external address but I also
need to
shift the existing emails.

Kate,

You need to modify /etc/aliases to have something like:

root: user@gmail.com mailto:user@gmail.com

You should then run /usr/bin/newaliases to make these changes active||.

An alternative is to create the file: /root/.forward with the one line:

user@domain

I don't know which of these approaches is more efficient. With the .forward, the change takes effect immediately.

Matt

-- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10

mccarrms@gmail.com mailto:mccarrms@gmail.com mccarrms@clarkson.edu mailto:mccarrms@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214

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