mail for root

[Hadders]

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?