On Monday April 6 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 06 April 2009 17:25:44 Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to configure an openSUSE 11.1 system to deliver system mail to an arbitrary address instead of a local user's mailbox (file)?
Yes, of course. In /etc/aliases
root: foo@bar.com,\root
Thanks.
You probably want to keep \root in there. In case the emails are lost they will still be available locally.
Afterwards run "postalias" as root, and you're done
Well, it helps if you've configured your postfix so that it knows how to send email externally first :)
I didn't. And now I do, but not fully or completely, it seems. After attempting configuration via YaST's "Mail Transfer Agent" module, I find that when I try to send mail it fails. What's odd is that the failure notification gets through (I sent a test message from the command line as root using the "mail" command and root's mail is forwarded to the remote account which I subsequently receive). However, the message I tried to send (sent directly to the same address to which root's mail is redirected) does not arrive. Have you any hints or suggestions about what the problem is or how I might diagnose this anomaly?
Anders
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