[SunHELP] .forward not working

Ben Ricker bricker at wellinx.com
Fri May 23 10:37:05 CDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 01:44, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:17:12AM -0500, Ben Ricker wrote:
> > 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:
> 
> Edit the aliases file in /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases and run
> newaliases afterwards.
> 
> best wishes,
> Chris

I did setup aliases and now I get the root mail forwarded. However, i am
still stumped on why the heck it ignores the .forward. I could not even
get the .forward working on any other accounts! 

Makes no sense....

Thanks all for the help,

Ben Ricker

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