On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists <lists at 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 at gmail.com You should then run /usr/bin/newaliases to make these changes active. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccarrms at gmail.com mccarrms at clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091130/bf2d6190/attachment-0005.html>