[KLUG Members] Forward with Sendmail

members@kalamazoolinux.org members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:59:27 -0500


>>How do you set up an account to forward. In older versions of RH I used 
>>linuxconf to do this. Now in 7.3 with out linuxconf I don't know how. Can 
>>somebody help?
>You can do it on the system side by editing the text file:
>/etc/aliases   and then running the command "newaliases".
>Or users can do it themselves by putting the new email address
>in a file in their home directory named  ".forward".  (no quotes!)
>Or you can do in the virtusertable file ...  nah.   :-)

Or with LDAP mail routing.

Or, you can do it the right way, and run a real mail package like Cyrus IMAPd
and let users setup forwards/filters/blocks via SIEVE.  Then you get really good
vacation message functionality, etc... which otherwise really sucks on
UNIX/LINUX unless your a procmail hacker.