Re: mailx (how is it able to send email?!?)

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:46:12 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:

Pretty sure as part of the mailx install, you were asked a few
questions for postfix setup. Most of your answers went into
/etc/postfix/main.cf setting up your Mail Transport Agent (MTA postfix)


For extra points: http://www.postfix.org

You may want to
# cd /etc/postfix
# grep root: aliases
and change the root: postfix
to root: beowulf

Save your change

# postalias aliases
# postfix stop
# /bin/cp /dev/null /var/log/mail/errors
# /bin/cp /dev/null /var/log/mail/info
# /bin/cp /dev/null /var/log/mail/warnings
# postfix start

# cat /var/log/mail/info
# cat /var/log/mail/warnings
# cat /var/log/mail/errors

Fix any errors/warnings.


Now any mail sent to root (alarms, cron msg, audit results,...)
will show up in beowulf's mail box.

Check it out, click up a terminal in beowulf login
$ mailx -s "test root aliases" root < /dev/null

$ mail
1
d
q


.

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