On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 12:24 +0800, Hadders wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:37 +0800, Hadders wrote: > > > >> Craig White wrote: > >> > >>> 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Thanks craig, any way I can test this from the commandline? > >> > > ---- > > mail someuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > (hint use a . on a line by itself to end the mail) > > > > Craig > > > > > Thanks heaps, I had to had a name record lookup in my domain for my PC, > otherwise the external mail server bounced it, claiming it didn't exist > (well, it didn't for them really). > > Other than that, all good. > > Thanks to everybody for their assistance. > > Anyone looking for a challenge, check out my thread "dmraid", no-one's > replied ;-( ---- not likely to get many replies on proprietary implementation of a 'fake raid' Craig
