> -----Original Message----- > From: Stacy Olivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 1:41 PM > To: 'Adam Lofstedt'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Redirecting root's email > > > In the /etc/aliases file look for the following lines: > > # Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", > so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or > forwarding # root's email from here. > > # root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (should be at the top of the file. > > make sure that you have a line in it like this (either > uncomment the line by remving the # or add a new line like: > > root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > save it and then run the "newaliases" command.. it will > rebuild the aliases database. > > For more info, do a "man newaliases". > > Of course, this only works *if* you have the sendmail daemon > running. <bg> > > Enjoy! > > -Stacy
You must have missed the begning of this thread (before it got snipped anyway). I did that. Exactly as you suggested. This was of course the first thing I did. I also read man newaliases, and every other relevant man page I could find. I also tried putting a .forward file in root's home directory with my external email address in it. > > Hi! > > > I am having trouble redirecting root's email to an external email > > account. This is a 4.7-Release box with not very > modifications done > > to the standard installation. > > > When I look at /var/spool/clientmqueue, it is full of > messages. Here > > is a snippet of one: > > > MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. > > I'm not a big Sendmail expert or anything, but do you even > have the MTA process running? Can you successfully telnet > localhost.visimation.com port 25? What sendmail related lines > do you have in /etc/rc.conf? > -- > Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * All wiyht. Rho sritched > mg kegboawd awound? Telnet to port 25 of localhost.visimation.com works. In my /etc/rc.conf the only entry I have for sendmail is: sendmail_enable="YES" Thanks for the help. This is really frusrating me. :( Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
