On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I have an Ubuntu server 10.04.4 LTS box, I want to understand > more about how it sends emails, replicate on other boxes, get some goodness > such as nagios alerts going out, for example. I know my knowledge in this > area is quite weak. > > The configuration details (related to the MTA at least) were not documented > during install. It's clear from /var/log/mail.log that postfix is the MTA. > I can read system emails via "mail". Output of cron jobs are being emailed > successfully to an external address specified in the MAILTO= line of each > crontab. > > crontab MAILTO addresses set as [email protected] however will NOT arrive. > I believe that somewhere I have unwisely set the box's domain to be > mydomain.com since when I view system emails via "mail" they are going to > [email protected]. What config file am I needing to edit to put the box in > some other internal domain so it can send messages out to mydomain.com? If > I am not on the right track here, could someone nudge me in an appropriate > direction?
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