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@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@onlo.htt-consult.com Mar 4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/qmgr[30443]: 911731400CE: from=rgm@onlo.htt-consult.com, size=471, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/local[30528]: 911731400CE: to=root@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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