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||. An alternative is to create the file: /root/.forward with the one line: user at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:mccarrms at gmail.com> > mccarrms at clarkson.edu <mailto:mccarrms at clarkson.edu> > 1-518-314-9214 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >