[CentOS] Solved - Re: problems with .forward

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 03/04/2013 11:03 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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

Use newaliases instead.  Well documented all over the place for managing 
aliases with postfix.  My little bit of searching for 'postman' seems to 
point this to being a debian command?  Well it doesn't matter, ans 
newaliases works.

thanks again.
>
> 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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