On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:56 +1000, Denis Crowdy wrote: > On my ubuntu box, mail for root is being sent out to my ISP, rather than > delivered locally (which is what I want surely?
Depends. Do you ever check your local mailbox? I don't. :-) > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > not a good look...). I have tried various alias combinations in > /etc/aliases and that appears to be the file postfix looks at. No > success. What foolishness have I configured this time? What have you got in /etc/mailname ? And what does your /etc/postfix/main.cf look like? For what it's worth, here's what I've done to have all of my root mail sent to my regular email account: My /etc/postfix/main.cf looks like this: myhostname = thunk.casa alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = localhost.localdomain, localhost.localdomain, localhost relayhost = littlegeek.casa mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = loopback-only (.casa is a domain that only resolves in my internal network) /etc/mailname contains my mail domain, hardy.dropbear.id.au. And my /etc/aliases contains these aliases: postmaster: root # Added by installer for initial user root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster: root Make sure your aliases db is up to date with `postalias /etc/aliases` and you should be golden. Cheers, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
