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 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 -- Craig White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ craig.white at ttiltd.com 1.800.869.6908 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.ttiassessments.com Using Assessments to Create Agile Organizations Webinar https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/480934271 March 21, 2013, 12pm EDT Transform your company into a thriving, agile organization that is able to respond immediately to changing customer demands.