On Monday 20 Sep 2004 06:33, Scott Leighton wrote:
Yast -> Network Services -> MTA -> when you get to the incoming mail section, you'll see a button 'Aliases', click it and edit the entry for root. Have the destination point to your email address at your ISP, e.g., usr@sanctum.com. That will cause all mail to root to get forwarded on to your personal email account at your ISP.
You didn't ask about the relay_host, but I assume you want an answer on that too, on the outgoing mail section (which you'll come to before incoming while you are in the MTA above), put your ISP's smtp server address in brackets, e.g., [smtp.sanctum.com] and if the ISP uses authentication, click the authentication box and fill in the needed information.
Hiya - this is all new to me too. I've been happily using kmail for all my email. Just looked in /var/spool/mail and the root entry in there is huge - presumably tons of mail that's never gone anywhere. I just followed your instructions above - although on the incoming I left blank the bit about incoming SMTP connections. I assumed that was if I wanted to act as an SMTP server on the net, instead of having my internet mail come via my pop mailbox - right ? There was no 'root' entry in the aliases list, but I noticed a box to forward root's mail to an address - this added root into the aliases list. Martin Farmilo