On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:13:22AM +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > so mail is going to "root". How/where do I set up emails to go to some > external email address? Presumably more than changing MAILTO= is > required - an smtp server needs to be specified somewhere? > > Or alternatively, can I access the emails currently being sent to "root" > despite this not being a real email address?
Your alternative is the correct course of action: send *all* emails directed at root to a real person. It's dependant on knowing which mail server you have, but generally look in /etc/aliases, and make changes as documented in there (wilch may involve running the 'newaliases' command when you've made the changes, with many servers) -jim
