Sendmail: how to duplicate incoming mail for two accounts?

Hi,

Is there a way to configure sendmail so that emails sent to a specified account are automatically copied to another user's inbox? Thus maintaining the same email on both accounts.

Thanks,
Ralph

I use it on my sendmail I get all the root mail in my private box as well as it going into the root box.

extract from the aliases file
# It is probably best to not work as user root and redirect all
# email to "root" to another account. Then you don't have to check
# for important email too often on the root account.
# The "\root" will make sure that email is also delivered to the
# root-account, but also forwared to the user "joe".
root: joe, \root

so you would do as follows

user1: user2, \user1

I would guess....

Mike

Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried this, however, but it doesn't seem to work. None of the email is delivered. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Ralph

Set up forwarding in the user acct properties of Sendmail.

Yup, I did that, but it will only forward mail and not keep a copy in the other account. In aliases, this works just fine:

username1: name@domain.com

However, none of the following work (sendmail just crashes completely and can't deliver any mail):

username1: name@domain.com, username1
username1: username1, name@domain.com
username1: name@domain.com, \username1
username1: \username1, name@domain.com
username1: name@domain.com, username1@domain.com

Any ideas? This is running on a Cobalt RaQ with Linux.

Thanks,
Ralph