forward root e-mails

Hi All,

How can I forward all incoming root e-mails to a specific user (like in
/etc/aliases "root: john" in sendmail) using qmail features without
installing "fastforward"?

~alias/.qmail-root and ~root/.qmail seems doesn't help...

Thank you!

/SergeyK

SK> ~alias/.qmail-root [...] seems doesn't help...

Read "INSTALL.alias" and the "dot-qmail" manual page.

"Sergey Kamshilin" <sergeyk@telus.net> writes:

> How can I forward all incoming root e-mails to a specific user (like in
> /etc/aliases "root: john" in sendmail) using qmail features without
> installing "fastforward"?
>
> ~alias/.qmail-root and ~root/.qmail seems doesn't help...

What did you put in ~alias/.qmail-root? Are you using qmail-users?

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

> > ~alias/.qmail-root and ~root/.qmail seems doesn't help...
> What did you put in ~alias/.qmail-root? Are you using qmail-users?

I did put username of the user who should get messages instead of root. But
messages are still in the root's mailbox.
Unfortunatelly I installed qmail as a part of another huge application and
I'm not sure what components are installed with it... I even don't have
dot-qmail man page...

In other word you are saying that ~alias/.qmail-root should work? OK, then I
will be investigating this issue with tech support of that application which
I installed...

Thank you!

/SergeyK

"Sergey Kamshilin" <sergeyk@telus.net> writes:

>> > ~alias/.qmail-root and ~root/.qmail seems doesn't help...
>> What did you put in ~alias/.qmail-root? Are you using qmail-users?
>
> I did put username of the user who should get messages instead of root. But
> messages are still in the root's mailbox.
> Unfortunatelly I installed qmail as a part of another huge application and
> I'm not sure what components are installed with it... I even don't have
> dot-qmail man page...
>
> In other word you are saying that ~alias/.qmail-root should work? OK, then I
> will be investigating this issue with tech support of that application which
> I installed...

~alias/.qmail-root should work unless there's an entry for root (or a
catch-all) in users/cdb.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

SK> But messages are still in the root's mailbox.

Changing "~alias/.qmail-root" won't magically move messages that have already
been delivered.