[Tfug] Local mail forwarding?

[Michael Stenner]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Slack wrote:
> Would that allow me to receive all the Cron messages? Don't those
> get addressed to root@<localdomain.com> or whichever user... Ok, I
> need more help than I thought. :) Setting up Sendmail or Postfix to
> relay should be easy enough (I at least get the concept), but what
> about setting the systems up so that I can get mail from cron,
> etc... Stuff that would be delivered to a local spool? Can ya tell
> mail is still pretty green territory for me? :) Thanks for the help
> and patience. :)

The proper solution for that problem is to edit /etc/aliases and run
newaliases.  See 'man aliases' for more info.  It's EXTREMELY
straightforward.  Basically, putting something like

root:           slack at foo.com

at the end should do the job.

					-Michael

> On Sunday 11 July 2004 10:38, Jerry S. wrote:
> > Hello Tucson,
> >
> >   Why not just set your mailserver to relay through cox's servers,
> >   they allow that.
> >
> >   jer
> >
> > Sunday, July 11, 2004, 10:28:19 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > S> Ok,
> >
> > S> I hope I can explain this right. :) What I'm looking to do is have all
> > my S> system mail (the mail generated by cron, mailx, etc) sent to my
> > external ISP S> account... The wonderful wingnuts at COX of course block
> > port 25, so setting S> up a nice full blown mail server is out of the
> > question, so I'm looking for S> ways around this.. I'd like to receive
> > notices in email for things like cron S> jobs on various boxes, maybe a
> > notification when one of my RAID drives S> faults, etc...
> >
> > S> Does that make sense? Can anyone help me put a solution together? I'm
> > really S> looking for even a top level theory based answer... I just need
> > someone to S> kick start my engine so to speak. :) Any help would be grand.
> > :)
> >
> > S> Thanks,
> > S> Allen
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