root email

[Arhineus]

If I want to have all mail for root forwarded to anyaddress@mydomain.com, what is the simplest way of doing so?

[Roxoff]

Are you running sendmail? If so, edit /etc/mail/aliases and edit the entry that says who 'root' is, and point it at that address. Then run 'newaliases'.

[Arhineus]

I'm running postfix, with CentOS 4.4.

[s13884]

hello dude,

just use the mail command
then specify
TO: Example@mydomain.com
FROM : Example@mydomain.com

But one thing u need to check your sendmail is properly installed or not
use command "rpm -qa sendmail" otherwise use the GUI tools for sendmail configuration /usr/sbin/system-config-packages.

If it's already installed then no problem check the service is running
check by this command "service sendmail status/start/stop"
otherwise u can do this easyest way like /etc/init.d/sendmail status/start/stop

If u have problem about this let me know.....

cheers,
Linux is Rocking

[Roxoff]

hello dude,

just use the mail command
then specify
TO: Example@mydomain.com
FROM : Example@mydomain.com

But one thing u need to check your sendmail is properly installed or not
use command "rpm -qa sendmail" otherwise use the GUI tools for sendmail configuration /usr/sbin/system-config-packages.

If it's already installed then no problem check the service is running
check by this command "service sendmail status/start/stop"
otherwise u can do this easyest way like /etc/init.d/sendmail status/start/stop

If u have problem about this let me know.....

cheers,
Linux is Rocking

But he's using postfix, said so in the post above yours.

[Roxoff]

There might be some information here at postfix.org that you might find useful. It tells you how alias files are declared. I cant try any of this out, of course, because I'm using sendmail.