Redirecting E-mail

[Mike McCarty]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:17 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>>Am Di, den 08.11.2005 schrieb Mike McCarty um 19:51:
>>
>>
>>>I have a game which I like to play on my machine. I have compiled it
>>>and it runs fine. Upon completion (winning) of the game, the game sends
>>>e-mail to the user name. This works fine, but I don't use the mail
>>>program for reading mail, I use Thunderbird. So... how do I redirect
>>>the local mail system used by mail to send e-mail sent to jmccarty
>>>to my ISP mail address Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net?
>>>
>>>I could just try fiddling the source and see whether it works, but
>>>ISTM that this should be a simple thing. Maybe /etc/aliases?
>>
>>>Mike
>>
>>Right, set an alias. Be aware that this of course will affect any mail
>>directed to the local user.
>>
>>jmccarty:               Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
>>
>>You need to run "newaliases" command to rebuild the aliases.db and thus
>>activating that change.
>>
>>An alternate is to use a ~/.forward file which just contains the target
>>email address. Set permissions to 600 for the .forward file.
> 
> 
> You may also need to configure your mail server (sendmail by default) to
> use a real domain name (as opposed to say, localhost.localdomain), or
> you may find that sbc's mail servers reject the mail.
> 
> Paul.

And how do I do that? I don't own a domain name.

Anyway, I recall using .forward under Solaris many years ago. I'll give
it a try.

Mike
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