mail forwarding

Ammad · 05-25-2005, 01:18 AM

created .forward in user home directory named "neo" and typed

root

and then as a root restarted sendmail but root not getting mails of neo user, neo can get his mails

how to resovle this problem ,
thanks

bathory · 05-25-2005, 02:03 AM

If I'm not wrong you must write the whole email address (i.e. root@yourhost.com), or to forward mail to another user in the same computer you must add a "\" in front of the username (i.e. \root)

jonaskoelker · 05-25-2005, 05:26 AM

bathory: exactly what do you mean by box: machine/computer or mailbox?

bathory · 05-25-2005, 07:04 AM

@jonaskoelker
I mean computer (actually I edited the post above)

Ammad · 05-25-2005, 10:40 PM

thanks bathory i'll check that