root email account is suddenly stopped to receive any email

[Michael Leung]

thank Matthew.
that's working now


On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:22:30 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:12:56AM +1000, Michael Leung wrote:
> >    I am new to Fedora. I don't know what happen. Just my root email
> > cannot get any email from cron job and logwatch.
> > I don't know why. Would you like to give me some direction? what kind
> > of log I can read to find out the problem.
> 
> Root shouldn't be recieving e-mail directly. (And, if you're using postfix,
> and I think maybe exim, you *can't*, by design.)
> 
> Instead, edit /etc/aliases (and also /etc/postfix/aliases on FC2 -- in FC3
> they all use the standard file) and redirect root's mail to a real account.
> 
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