Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>> 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@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:user@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> 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
>
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