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Cc: 'Hans Nieser' <hans@nieser.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to redirect mail sent to root to external mailbox?
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Mark J. Sommer wrote:

> 
> This is really a sendmail question I believe.  Your problem is probably
> because root doesn't get masqueraded.  In your sendmail.cf, is there a line
> like the following:
> 
> CEroot
> 
> or
> 
> C{E}root
> 
> If so, comment it out and restart sendmail.

That will work but the config will get overwritten on upgrades. It 
is best to override the defaults via the mc config generator, so 
that "CE root" doesn't appear in the first place.


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