Linux mail forward

This will forward roots mail. Edit the aliases file.

vi /etc/aliases

Go to the last line in the file (shortcut key 'G') and add the new email address.

# Person who should get root's mail
root:           root, freier@gmail.com

Set up the domain

This is to setup the domain so it doesn't send mail from localhost.localdomain

Make sure you do a back up, I have not got this to work yet.

Before I started these commands I needed to install m4 and sendmail-cf

yum install m4
yum install sendmail-cf

Also mail didnt come with fedora 13 so I needed to install it

yum insatll mailx

1. Edit sendmail config

# vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

2. Append/add/modify the lines as follows:

MASQUERADE_AS(cyberciti.biz)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(cyberciti.biz)dnl

3. Save and close the file. Replace domain name cyberciti.biz with your actual domain name. Update and restat sendmail server:

# m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
# /etc/init.d/sendmail restart

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If you need to install mail, it does not come with fedora

yum install mailx

To start the message type:

# mail -s “Hello world” {user}

When you press enter you can type the rest of the email. Ctrl+D ends the email and sends it.

Ctrl+D

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If mailx stops working... 1. yum install postfix

2. service postfix restart

This is a ok hack I guess?

vi sendmail.cf

search for

Dj$w.FOO.COM

and change it too

Dj$w.johnfreier.com

it will change the send address from root@localhost.johnfreier.com