Folks,

I am using POP3/sendmail, how to use .forward to forward my email
server's received email to my yahoo and/or hotmail accoutn in case
I am travelling?

Thx,
HTM

You dont really want to use the .forward file (unless you dont have root access to the system). The best way is to use aliases. Edit the file /etc/mail/aliases, and add the following line:

user: email_to_forward@domain.com

where "user" is the user on the system, and the email address is the one to forward to. After updating the file, run the command "newaliases" and it will add the aliases to the database.

I agree with Shubb, but I would like to add a thought. You say you want to check your mail while traveling, have you thought about setting up some kind of webmail on your system? That would take care of you having to remember to forward your email all the time. Personally, I installed webmin (www.webmin.com) and use the usermin module to check my email. Just my 2 cents. Hope that helps!

Travis Beehler

I edied /etc/mail/aliases and added the following line

my_user_name: email to my_another_user_name@hotmail.com

and ran newaliases

But I cannot get my email from hotmail after sending a test message,

anything wrong?

Thx,
HTM

Sorry if I was unclear...

Use this:

username: name@hotmail.com

Drop the "email to"

It still does forward, why?

Thx,
HTM

Did you run the command "newaliases" after updating the file? If so, post your aliases file here.

That's funny, I have exactly the same problem.

When I send an email to vette73@mydomain.com I receive the mail.
When I try to forward the incomming mail to vette73@hotmail.com, my mail get lost and I will not receive the mail (not in the original mailbox and not in the Hotmailbox.

I use Sendmail v8.12.11 on FreeBSD 4.10

This is my ' aliases' file:

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/aliases,v 1.10.4.7 2003/04/04 06:15:55 gshapiro Exp $
# @(#)aliases 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/24/90
#
# Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from
# Mail, but WILL be visible over networks.
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after
# >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to
# >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail.
#
#
# See also RFC 2142, `MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES
# AND FUNCTIONS', May 1997

# Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so
# you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding
# root's email from here.

root: vette73@hotmail.com
vette73: vette73@hotmail.com

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

# General redirections for pseudo accounts
bin: root
bind: root
daemon: root
games: root
kmem: root
mailnull: postmaster
man: root
news: root
nobody: root
operator: root
pop: root
smmsp: postmaster
sshd: root
system: root
toor: root
tty: root
usenet: news
uucp: root
xten: root

# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
# manager:
# dumper:

Hi, but how I can forward one e-mail to another mail box, but saving e-mail message in my mailbox;

for example i send message to mail@domen.com and copy of this message goes to the another_mail@domen.com.

What does your mail log file say when you send yourself an email with forwarding turned on? You should get some messages something like this:

Aug 24 15:37:58 server_name sm-mta[5628]: i7OMbwH8005628: from=<username@sourcedomain.com>, size=1203, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<1B8A2DD33C49824F8D9021678C1272130218FEF8@mailserver.sourcedomain.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mailserver.sourcedomain.com [XX.XX.XX.XX]

Aug 24 15:37:59 server_name sm-mta[5629]: i7OMbwH8005628: to=username@forwarddomain.com, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=31434, relay=server.forwarddomain.com. [YY.YY.YY.YY], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK 1093387090)

Stormbuster, you can copy the email to multiple users, so you can add your username in the list for forwards, and it will save a copy locally, or forward to multiple addresses.

username: username, user@domain.com, user@domain2.com

@shubb

My maillog has the following entries:

Aug 25 13:07:44 server_name sm-mta[1946]: i7PB7h4a001946: from=<username@sourcedomain.com>, size=1917, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<001001c48a8b$84a59d70$7198e584@law4134>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=mailserver.sourcedomain.com [xx.xx.xx.xx]

Aug 25 13:07:47 server_name sm-mta[1947]: i7PB7h4a001946: to=username@forwarddomain.com, ctladdr=<username@sourcedomain.com> (1001/1001), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, pri=32208, relay=forwarddomain.com. [yy.yy.yy.yy], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ( <001001c48a8b$84a59d70$7198e584@law4134> Queued mail for delivery)

The biggest differences with your example are:

1. In the first entry in 'msgid' you have a number with '@mailserver.sourcedomain.com'. I only have the number.
2. In the first entry you have 'deamon=MTA', I have 'daemon=IPv4'.
3. In the second entry I have 'ctladdr=<username@sourcedomain.com> (1001/1001)', you miss this part.
4. In the second part in 'relay' you have 'relay=server.forwarddomain.com. [YY.YY.YY.YY]', I have 'relay=forwarddomain.com. [YY.YY.YY.YY]' where yy.yy.yy.yy is the correct ip-address.
5. My mail is 'Queued mail for delivery'

Another way is to create a .forward text file and just put your email address in it. Place that file in your home directory.