Tim wrote: > 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 Well since I wrote it...I know you missed it. :-) > >>> 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. > -- HTTPD Error 666 : BOFH was here
