On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Richard Miles wrote about, RE: Login Names:
> >
> > Ok, my Linux login name is peter and my e-mail login mail is
> > pfheiss. Now if I
> > receive mail fetchmail wants to put it to pfheiss and since it
> > can not find
> > the name it bounces causing quite some annoyances like cutting me
> > off from
> > this list. I put pfheiss now into /etc/passwd and all the mail
> > flows nicely
> > now to /var/spool/mail/pfheiss.
> > If I send mail, pine and exmh will put FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > instead of
> > FROM:pfheiss@.... unless I edit in /etc/passwd peter to ....false.
> > May be I made something wrong somewhere.
> >
>
> I am still pretty new to Linux, so bear with me if this is completely wrong
> but can't you just create a pfheiss account and forward all of the email
> from it to peter?
I belive i have pointed the origanal question asker to the following before;
edit /etc/aliases and add;
peter: pfheiss
Do not forget to run 'newaliases' after the change.
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Regards Richard
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