Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:40:52 +0100 From: "Stacy Olivas" <olivas@digiflux.org> To: "'Adam Lofstedt'" <adaml@visimation.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Redirecting root's email Message-ID: <00a401c2b5cc$49ddbe60$0501000a@sentinel> In-Reply-To: <200301061930.h06JUnt27692@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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In the /etc/aliases file look for the following lines: # Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding # root's email from here. # root: me@my.domain (should be at the top of the file. make sure that you have a line in it like this (either uncomment the line by remving the # or add a new line like: root: you@yourdomain.com save it and then run the "newaliases" command.. it will rebuild the aliases database. For more info, do a "man newaliases". Of course, this only works *if* you have the sendmail daemon running. <bg> Enjoy! -Stacy -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Toomas Aas Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:30 PM To: Adam Lofstedt; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redirecting root's email Hi! > I am having trouble redirecting root's email to an external email > account. This is a 4.7-Release box with not very modifications done to > the standard installation. > When I look at /var/spool/clientmqueue, it is full of messages. Here is > a snippet of one: > MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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