From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 13:41:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BE537B4D0 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from digiflux.org (43.Red-80-59-151.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.59.151.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAA643EB2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) Received: from sentinel ([10.0.0.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by digiflux.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h06LhJiG014047; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:43:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) From: "Stacy Olivas" To: "'Adam Lofstedt'" , Subject: RE: Redirecting root's email Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:40:52 +0100 Message-ID: <00a401c2b5cc$49ddbe60$0501000a@sentinel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200301061930.h06JUnt27692@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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