-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
First of all, use -v -s instead of -sv, as the latter says to set the subject to 'v', and adds an additional recipient Testing. Other than that, can you post your /etc/postfix/main.cf, and/or the relevant parts from /var/log/mail.log? Regards, /peter Am 08.09.2015 um 09:03 schrieb James Allsopp: > Hello, I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if > possible. I can send email here via commandline > > echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test <external addess> > > but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the > external address I can't get this to work. > > echo "This is a test.(root)" | mail -sv Testing root > > adding a verbose to the mail command doesn't give any more > details. I tried running newaliases, but that didn't make any > difference. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > James > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJV7t5/AAoJEM+6Ng5pbtyZsBQQAJuXnS0qZ5qonTpEiXvAynFx 5ierTpmuLiIez2mlfc52bz0gmQWKBbkPcQBFCuOehkAYB3+56HT4HyIjw2ID/luF eFudNhTSUPd83e5SSEgry1BgpJZltJ6dW65tTrqwJQLdk2Rie0dDwVXSmrhmWXj/ RUUQVXGxEiS8gO4vpmoyZ3INXKuqwh9kn+mGIdk0zTnq5e6GLVtMP3gpD3WHU5JV QFRd0y4cFbYTt1GDuT5BpeiBoQxXZv3jZXL9/Hh+ll6DLAhBpnG6GEIn9uobX8Wv wNoXYyfOefLIDOC7IV2jbHZ2rteA+q8rwQcWq0W67t7Zg46bO/hsNxXpOVUhdGUD 9UOVW3Y28UiW1VplT9imJaI+DWl6WUN233QgxqUB0eorvQR5nK+pOSPvUYb0/IyO 6TSMB0xGmi4MSVm01dU5CipJkQHWVU0XXLOlgAX7ceGnAvNiOSP1Ubm/ldiR5PgD caGq8EXHStQlngwV74lorKS04KfIG8AcRthmjgRT7Bww5H+Z1mWWBGIx8aNWlEDL nuSD43HeKRAb8IHCvtQuWnvygxElp9ZX4i1JYW4yg8hg/qBg9hWoevrJbmh4r/Uw JC8iFmhx9398HxCJ0bMW5Hm0U1l/Up9juZks/OyWDNOvPd8Xry6QrOTRrZ4pBffi lFF9IDxtZZ+3VmsN6K70 =SLx9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
