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Cerin
Asked: 2011-08-25 05:26:29 +0800 CST

How do you setup system email to send to a Gmail account?

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Often when I'm working on a terminal, I'll see the "you have new mail in..." message. I know I can see this mail by looking in my system's mail folder (/var/mail/), but this is inconvenient. Also, if the message is important, such as a notice about low system resources, or drive problems, or a failed cron job, I may not see that message or check the system's mail folder for weeks or more.

How can I set it up so that all these messages get sent to a real email service, like Gmail, which I check daily?

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  1. Best Answer

    See this:

    Users can control their own mail delivery by specifying destinations in a file called .forward in their home directories.

    So, when you do this:

    echo "[email protected]" > ~/.forward

    the mails should be forwarded to the e-mail you've specified (in this case, [email protected])

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