In the /etc/aliases file look for the following lines: # Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding # root's email from here.
# root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (should be at the top of the file. make sure that you have a line in it like this (either uncomment the line by remving the # or add a new line like: root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] save it and then run the "newaliases" command.. it will rebuild the aliases database. For more info, do a "man newaliases". Of course, this only works *if* you have the sendmail daemon running. <bg> Enjoy! -Stacy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toomas Aas Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:30 PM To: Adam Lofstedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redirecting root's email Hi! > I am having trouble redirecting root's email to an external email > account. This is a 4.7-Release box with not very modifications done to > the standard installation. > When I look at /var/spool/clientmqueue, it is full of messages. Here is > a snippet of one: > MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. I'm not a big Sendmail expert or anything, but do you even have the MTA process running? Can you successfully telnet localhost.visimation.com port 25? What sendmail related lines do you have in /etc/rc.conf? -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegboawd awound? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
