Forwarding local mail to external mail account?

[Clément Février]

On 23/05/2010 15:07, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, with exim4 and mutt installed. I
> can sucessfully send, receive and read local mail on this machine. I
> tried to forward the mail from my local account to my external mail
> address, where I regularly read my mail. I did this by creating a
> .forward file in my home directory and put in my regular (external) mail
> address. However, I the messages never find their way to my external
> mailbox. Any hints or ideas? How can I check what's going on? Do I need
> to (re)configure exim4? How?
>
> Matthias
>
Hello,

I did it with a postfix configuration without problem. I created a file 
.forward and just put inside the email address.

Can you send a mail to an external mailbox without the .forward file ? 
(I guess yes)
You can check the logs in /var/log/ (the files containing mail and messages)

Clément
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