On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:09 +0800, Hadders wrote: > Hadders wrote: > > Hi all, > > I should know how to do this, but 99% of the time, I don't care about > > the mail for root. > > > > Should I? > > > > Also, how would I turn this off? > > > > Thanks > > > Thanks people. > > Just another couple of questions. If I want this to go to an external > email address, obviously I enter the address in the alias. But, how does > it get there? > I assume I need sendmail running? and where do I configure the smtp-host > (external) that sendmail should use? ---- sendmail should be running... edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc find these lines... dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs to dnl # be sent out through an external mail server: dnl # dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider') dnl # edit per instructions restart sendmail Craig
