On 20/09/06, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:

Sounds like you need to edit /etc/aliases (depending on your server setup, should work for most machines) and change the line that looks something like

root: jenny

to

root: jenny@ordinary-email-address

Hi Wayne,

This is what I did yesterday, and this morning have found my first forwarded admin mals waiting. Yay!

Isn't it better to create a .forward file in Jenny's home dir, the contents of which (on the first line) are the external address.

Can't think why it is better that way (apart from the user not needing to be su to change the address later) but it's the way I've always done this in the past.

Ah, good point well made......perhaps I'll try this and see if I *still* get forwarded mails tomorrow but done this way.

Thanks all.

Jenny