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

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists 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

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

Matt

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