Hey I have been looking for the script that you can forward emails to a diferent address from you linux box.

For example email root@yourhost.com will be forwarded to
user@domain.com

I heard people talking about .forward file ??? What is it and where do you get it? After you get it where do you put it and do you need to do any thing else?
Can you filter through the email and only forward the ones that match critirial for example I only want my server to forward all the emails except specificuser@domain.com


Sorry I'm kinda new to linux.

Any Help is Apriciated.

The .forward files only do simple forwarding (that I know of). You literally create a file called .forward in the users home directory that contains the address you wish to forward the email to. I don't think you need to change any specical settings anywhere to get it to work.

I'm not sure the best way to filter on rules, I'm sure there will be someway to get sendmail to do it!

HTH

Jamie...

Yeah I was looking through man pages for procmail it mentions the rules you can filter email, I'm just confused on how does that file get called, Can anyone help