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Re: How to forward local mail to external address?



Magicloud Magiclouds grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi,
>   By default, many tools like cron will send mails to local, like
> magicloud@localhost.
>   Now I want these mails to be relayed to my company mail address. So I do
> not have to configure all tools to send mail directly to my company
> address. I used to have it on another host, but I forgot how to do it.
>   I am using exim4.
>   Thanks.

For cron, one common way is to add a line to the top of the crontab
entry for the user that cron is running the jobs for, like this:

MAILTO="user@othermachine.com"

If you want all mail that's being sent to a local address to be
forwarded, you can put a .forward file in the home directory of the
user that's receiving the mail, with the address to be forwarded to in
it.  No other text is needed, just the address.

                --Dave


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