UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'd like to forward my Emails from my domain to my gmx and web.de accounts. For example:

bla@blabla.de to bla@gmx.de
blabla@blabla.de to bla@web.de

How to do this ? I know that .forward forwards all emails to one account, but that's not what I want.

Yet, that is what you asked for...since .forward can forward to more than one location.
What are you looking for? To forward only specific email from certain addresses?

Another way of 'forwarding' email that might serve your needs is to set up an alias (possibly in /etc/mail/aliases file) that points your address to others. See the man page for aliases.

Email for bla@blabla.de gets forwarded to both gmx.de and web.de

bla: bla@web.d,bla@gmx.de

firstuser@mydomain.de to firstuser@gmx.net
seconduser@mydomain.de to seconduser@web.de

get it ?

Oh, yeah, I get it! I didn't see the bla versus blabla - trying to read to quickly again.

Still, the answer would be the aliases file on mydomain.de -


firstuser: firstuser@gmx.net
seconduser: seconduser@web.de

There's no aliases file, where do I need to put those in ? And what should I write in ?

your aliases file may be in either your /etc/mail/aliases or /etc/aliases

after amending the file be sure to run newaliases

I still don't know what to put in there