On 01/29/2013 04:03 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > I have run into what can only be described as a farce but one that is > outside my control and which I need fixed. > > I am informed that my cell phone service provider, Bell Canada, will > not allow any email messages from a user id 'root' to pass through > their email to sms text gateway. Now, I send alerts out from cron and > other system monitoring software and these all go out as > root at host.domain.tld. > > Is there any way to configure the outgoing address to be something > else? Or do I have to rename the root user to get around this > nonsensical, and utterly useless, restriction imposed by my provider? > > vi /etc/aliases Edit entry at bottom of file: # Person who should get root's mail #root: marc Execute newaliases as root or sudo