Re: Configuring sendmail

Subject: Re: Configuring sendmail
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 16:37:55 AKST

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Mike Barsalou wrote:

> How would I configure sendmail to send mail that is coming to a certain user
> to get redirected to a program?

/etc/mail/aliases (or /etc/aliases) normally takes care of this. Either
that, or if your sendmail is set up to allow it, you can also do it with a
.forward file in the user's home directory.

Basically it's just:

username: "|/path/to/some/program"

Mike

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