mail for root
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Dec 8 03:38:29 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 12:24 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:37 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
> >>
> > ----
> > mail someuser at somedomain.com
> >
> > (hint use a . on a line by itself to end the mail)
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> Thanks heaps, I had to had a name record lookup in my domain for my PC,
> otherwise the external mail server bounced it, claiming it didn't exist
> (well, it didn't for them really).
>
> Other than that, all good.
>
> Thanks to everybody for their assistance.
>
> Anyone looking for a challenge, check out my thread "dmraid", no-one's
> replied ;-(
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not likely to get many replies on proprietary implementation of a 'fake
raid'
Craig
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