Am 05.02.2013 05:46, schrieb David Guntner:
A third way is to add an entry to /etc/aliases. E.g. you could do> 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.
magicloud: localuser, remot_mail@example.org
Of course, you will need to tell exim4 to send mails out. Maybe you like
to rerun dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.
Cheers,
Frank