Sendmail Forward Questions

chachig · 09-21-2006, 06:09 PM

Ok I am pretty new to using linux and sendmail and I have two questions.

1. So lets say from the list below I want to forward the first message to another email outside like me@gmail.com how would I do that via the command line?

Code:

Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/root": 3 messages 3 unread
>U  1 root@onefish.domain  Wed Sep 20 04:02  99/4299  "LogWatch for onefish.stjosephswb.com"
 U  2 root@onefish.domain  Thu Sep 21 04:02  99/4299  "LogWatch for onefish.stjosephswb.com"
 U  3 root@onefish.domain  Thu Sep 21 16:05  23/972   "Cron <root@onefish> root /home/kshscripts/danrestart.ksh >> /home/kshscripts/logs/danrestart.log"
&

2. My second question is how do you forward all email sent to root?

Now I know you have to use the .forward file and I have it in /home of root and the contents of the .forward file is.

Code:

me@gmail.com

Thanks for your time.

SlackDaemon · 09-23-2006, 04:49 AM

You won't be able to forward messages from the command line with the 'nail' application. If your using a mail client like mutt, they have inbuilt key-combinations. For mutt, view the message that you would like to forward and then press the 'f' key. This will prompt you for the address that you would like to forward the message to.

If you want copies of mail to be automatically sent whenever a particular user receives mail, you can use the /etc/aliases file (/etc/mail/aliases on some systems). Here is an example of the layout:

username: username,exuser@example.com,exuser2@yahoo.com

Each user is separated from the next by a comma. after your done editing the aliases file type the command newaliases or sendmail -bi

Berhanie · 09-23-2006, 01:27 PM

Using Berkeley Mail, you can include message n into the current message with '~f n' or '~m n', depending on whether you want the indentprefix (for forwarding, you probably wouldn't). The mail client SlackDaemon mentioned, nail (now called mailx), is an extension of Mail having the 'fwd' command, as well as numerous others for handling things such as MIME messages.

SlackDaemon · 09-24-2006, 01:29 AM

I stand corrected. Thanks for that Berhanie, I wasn't aware of that.