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. > > using a '.forward' has been out of vogue for many years Shows how long I have been coasting along. I will take the aliases path, then. thanks. > > 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos