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leave the entry as it exists, with the simple change of 'joe' to your email... so, root <your email>, \root - Herman On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Steven T. Hatton wrote: ->On Wednesday 09 October 2002 04:12 pm, Herman L. Knief wrote: ->> Just edit the aliases file for the root entry and change 'joe' or what ->> ever it is to your email address. Then run "newaliases" ->> ->> - Herman ->> ->> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Steven T. Hatton wrote: ->> ->> ->I'm sure I should know how to do this. Someone told me about 10 years ->> ago, ->but I forgot. How would I set things up so that all the mail sent ->> to root is ->also sent to my user account? ->> -> ->> ->STH ->> -> ->> ->-- ->> ->Check the headers for your unsubscription address ->> ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->> ->Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com ->> ->Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com ->> -> ->> -> ->> -> -> ->Won't that redirect the mail, rather than 'fork' it to me? I still want root ->to get root mail. I just want to receive it as well. -> ->STH -> ->-- ->Check the headers for your unsubscription address ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com ->Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -> -> ->