Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

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Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

As root (go through the sudo -i process) create
a file called
/root/.forward containing the address to which you
want root's mail sent.

Ok, thanks for the reply but don't understand above.
I could do: sudo -i process(literal) and enter a name
"/root/.forward" and hit enter; is that right? Then
how do I enter the address to send root mail to?
username@what,where? Ubuntu is the machine name. Is
that what goes afer the "@"? Sorry to be so dumb but
never used the process command before.

As root, do: echo "myname@xxxxxxxxxxxx" > $HOME/.forward

And/or...

Edit /etc/aliases to add: root:
myname@xxxxxxxxxx

I have in /etc/aliases "root: <username>" but no email
address. I know myname is bound to be my username
because that's who root mail goes to. What about
"mymail.com"? Is that to be literal or just what?

Yep, it's a two-part thing, in /etc/aliases. The first part is the
user to whom the mail is addressed,(with a colon) and the email address
seperated by spaces/tabs/etc.

I did say I know very little about linux internal mail
protocol and have always just answered to "install" or
"-reconfigure" questions in the past and it just
worked for root mail. The questions asked in Feisty
are somewhat different now? Some clarification is
welcomed.

Yeah this should do it. If not, I'm still here.

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