Timeline for Can I change root's email address or forward it to an external address?
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| Jul 22, 2023 at 6:40 | comment | added | volvox | anyone else finding this, ssmtp does not honour .forward. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 22:09 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
@ThomasWeller Which file? /etc/aliases and ~/.forward are usually 644, though I think 600 works with most MTAs.
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| Nov 30, 2015 at 21:59 | comment | added | Thomas Weller | What permissions should the file have? | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 14:20 | comment | added | cwd | Thanks. I think root's .forward file may have been overriding the multiple addresses I had in the alias file. It's working now, thanks for your help :) | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 10:07 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @cwd It does for Postfix. Hmm, I think recent versions of Ubuntu install a limited MTA which doesn't do any local delivery in the default desktop installation. Older Ubuntu releases or server installations install Postfix by default, and Postfix does support my examples. | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 1:37 | comment | added | cwd |
hmm, does [email protected], /root/mailbox work on ubuntu? it goes to the first address but not the local mailbox for root, even after running newaliases. I also tried /var/mail/root without success...
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| Dec 13, 2011 at 0:46 | vote | accept | cwd | ||
| Dec 13, 2011 at 0:20 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |