[CentOS] Not receiving root mail

Mon Aug 22 15:05:49 UTC 2011
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On 22/08/2011, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:12:54PM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>> > <anne at xxxx.org>: host mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98] said:
>
> If you're running postfix, you might want to also edit /etc/aliases.
> The last line or so has a commented line, person who should get root's
> mail.  (The name is marc, probably the person who first wrote it.)
>
I did that, some time ago.  Postfix.conf points to
/etc/postfix/aliases, though, so I made sure by editing both.

> After changing that, run newaliases /etc/alias to rebuild the
> /etc/alias.db.
>
Yes, I did remember that

> To answer your other question, alternatives is the command you asked
> about in an earlier post
>
> alternatives  --config mta
>
> This will show you if you're using postfix or sendmail.
>
I found postfix in the partial headers in the bounce-message
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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