[SunHELP] .forward not working

[Thomas Cameron]

Don't use a .forward, use /etc/aliases and run newaliases.
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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
(512) 454-3200 Main
http://www.camerontech.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Ricker" <bricker at wellinx.com>
To: "Sun Help List" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] .forward not working


> I have a Solaris 8 box running on a Netra t1/150 and I cannot get the
> .forward to work! I have a file in '/' with the following attributes:
> 
> -rw-------   1 root     other         20 May 22 11:07 .forward
> 
> The content is one line with my email address on it. No matter what, the
> root account receives all the email but it never forwards the mail to
> the address in the .forward file. 
> 
> Just to be sure, I checked that the root home directory is really '/'
> and it is. I also verified this by "su -" into the root account and it
> dumped me into the the root directory.
> 
> If no one has any ideas, is there another way to force sendmail to
> forward the root mail to my admin account? Some sort of aliasing? This
> Solaris box is not the main SMTP server; I have that setup in the
> /etc/hosts file thusly:
> 
> 172.16.10.19    mailhost.wellinx.com    mailhost
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Ben Ricker
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