[CentOS] problems with .forward

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 03/04/2013 10:29 AM, Craig White wrote:
> You should set e-mail address for root in /etc/aliases and then issue command 'postman /etc/aliases' to alert postfix to the changes.

# postman /etc/aliases
-bash: postman: command not found

So I will read the postfix docs for how else to do this...

>
> using a '.forward' has been out of vogue for many years
>
> Craig
>
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> My old Centos 5.5 servers had a /root/.forward to send things like
>> logwatch to this email account.  It did not take any special
>> configuration in sendmail for this to work.
>>
>> Now Centos 6.3 is using postfix (as we well know, and generally I am
>> happy for this) and I have set up the /root/.forward as always, but it
>> seems like postfix is ignoring it.  I have restarted postfix with no
>> difference in behaviour.
>>
>> /root/.forward contains the single line without ending in <cr> (I have
>> tested with <cr> at the end as well:
>>
>> rgm at htt-consult.com
>>
>> 'host htt-consult.com' responses with:
>>
>> htt-consult.com mail is handled by 10 klovia.htt-consult.com.
>>
>> For the testing from my regular account I run:
>>
>> mail -s Test root  < /dev/null
>>
>> /var/log/maillog shows:
>>
>> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/pickup[30442]: 911731400CE: uid=500 from=<rgm>
>> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/cleanup[30526]: 911731400CE:
>> message-id=<20130304151604.911731400CE at onlo.htt-consult.com>
>> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/qmgr[30443]: 911731400CE:
>> from=<rgm at onlo.htt-consult.com>, size=471, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/local[30528]: 911731400CE:
>> to=<root at onlo.htt-consult.com>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local, delay=0.15,
>> delays=0.08/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
>> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/qmgr[30443]: 911731400CE: removed
>> You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
>>
>> Does anyone else use the .forward file?  This should work.  Of course I
>> can modify the alias file for postfix, but .forward was always 'easier'
>> to configure.
>>
>> If I have to plow through the postfix docs for this, I will, but I would
>> think this should work.
>>
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