Mail forwarding via smtp w/rules

Greg21 · 04-28-2004, 10:36 PM

I'm trying to setup some system that will download mail from one of my accounts off of a pop server, then forward that mail through a smtp (my ISP's, with whom i have the pop account) to another e-mail account.

My thought was I would just use thunderbird and rules to forward, but that (and most) mail clients don't have "forward to:" as a filter action.

What would be the easiest way for me to do this?

Thanks,
Greg

DavidPhillips · 04-29-2004, 02:03 AM

You can have a .forward file in the users home folder.

Or try this..

I have not tried this yet but it should work. It works for incoming mail on the smtp server so I think it should work with fetchmail to.

/etc/aliases file

user: user, somebody@anywhere.com

If you don't want it delivered locally try this

user: somebody@anywhere.com

run newaliases after editing /etc/aliases, /etc/mail/aliases, or /etc/postfix/aliases.