Help Getting Root's email to recipient
Don Russell
fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com
Sun Apr 17 12:30:06 UTC 2005
tonydm wrote:
> I have edited the line following #Person
> who should get root's mail in /etc/aliases to read root:
> me-user at myemailaddress.com (example to state the obvious). I have then
> run newaliases. Here's my trouble, or lack of understanding. I am not
> getting any of the roots messages. I do not have a mailserver running
> on this box. Sendmail is stopped.
There's the problem... /etc/aliasses is used by sendmail. Start sendmail.
> How should I/or should I need to
> configure an email account in thunderbird or the like? How do I forward
> the roots mail to me-user at myemailaddress.com? I'm missing something
> obvious, but this greenhorn could use your help.
Setting up /etc/aliases is fine... you just need to start sendmail.
There are probably a few other things you need to configure in
sendmail... like your ISP server names etc. Try using the "smarthost"
feature...
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