Tim: >> I haven't seen anybody mention the easy way: Read your /etc/aliases >> file, and put your username down the bottom where it gives you the >> example of how to direct mail from root to another user, then run the >> newaliases command that it tells you about at the top of that file. Ed Greshko: > Then you missed several exchanges.... I can imagine missing seeing it buried in the mire of everything else, but if it'd appeared several times I think I would have seen it. Mi >> e.g. root: mike >> >> Or you can do it as >> root: Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> if your SMTP server sends with a real domain name. > The OP had problems with that as it wouldn't go out for some reason. If so, most likely for the reason that I last mentioned. If it tries sending it out as root@localhost, or coming from any other non public domain name, many external SMTP servers will reject it as part of their anti-spamming handling. Mike would need to configure his SMTP server not to do that. Though, as he said, sending out a list of your problems to an outside server isn't the best of things to do. It would be better to keep that all in-house. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
