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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >