Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists <lists at rheel.co.nz > <mailto: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 <mailto:user at gmail.com> > > > You should then run /usr/bin/newaliases to make these changes active||. > > Matt Hi Matt, I have done this and it works for new mail arriving but I need to onsend the existing mail. Thanks Kate