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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:13:45 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        <adaml@visimation.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Redirecting root's email
Message-ID:  <004501c2b5ea$065c1d30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <000c01c2b5e9$25293460$6501a8c0@5adam5>

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> >
> > I'm not a big Sendmail expert or anything, but do you even
> > have the MTA
> > process running? Can you successfully telnet localhost.visimation.com
> > port 25? What sendmail related lines do you have in /etc/rc.conf?
> > --
> > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee |
> > http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
> > * All wiyht.  Rho sritched
> > mg kegboawd awound?
> >
> Yes, I have the Sendmail Process running.  Telnet to port 25 of
> localhost.visimation.com gives this:
> Forcefield# telnet localhost.visimation.com 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1
> Connected to locahost.visimation.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 forcefield.visimation.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.6/8.12.6; Mon, 6 Jan
> 2003 16:50:15 -0800 (PST)
>
> I really wish I could get this working.  It seems like such a simple
> thing, and my installation was pretty much straight-out-of-the-box from
> the Standard installation.

Usually to redirect root's email, you edit /etc/mail/aliases to have an
entry that looks like this:

root:    matt

and then run 'newalises' for it to take effect.  If you want to redirect
root's email to a non-local mailbox, then you have to make an entry in
/etc/mail/virtusertable, like this:

root    matt@gsicomp.on.ca

and then 'cd /etc/mail' and 'make' which will do the trick.

--
Matt Emmerton


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