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  Redirecing root emails to a gmail account James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2015-09-08 09:10 +0200
    Re: Redirecing root emails to a gmail account Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2015-09-08 15:30 +0200
    Re: Redirecing root emails to a gmail account Linux 4 Bene <linux4bene@telenet.be> - 2015-09-09 15:10 +0200

#157541 — Redirecing root emails to a gmail account

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Hello,
I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if possible. I can
send email here via commandline

echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test <external addess>

but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the external
address I can't get this to work.

echo "This is a test.(root)" | mail -sv Testing root

adding a verbose to the mail command doesn't give any more details.
I tried running newaliases, but that didn't make any difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

James

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Hi,

First of all, use -v -s instead of -sv, as the latter says to set the
subject to 'v', and adds an additional recipient Testing.

Other than that, can you post your /etc/postfix/main.cf, and/or the
relevant parts from /var/log/mail.log?

Regards,
/peter

Am 08.09.2015 um 09:03 schrieb James Allsopp:
> Hello, I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if
> possible. I can send email here via commandline
> 
> echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test <external addess>
> 
> but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the
> external address I can't get this to work.
> 
> echo "This is a test.(root)" | mail -sv Testing root
> 
> adding a verbose to the mail command doesn't give any more
> details. I tried running newaliases, but that didn't make any
> difference.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> James
> 
> 
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#157625

Op Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:03:01 +0100, schreef James Allsopp:

> Hello,
> I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if possible. I
> can send email here via commandline
> 
> echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test <external addess>
> 
> but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the external
> address I can't get this to work.
> 
> echo "This is a test.(root)" | mail -sv Testing root
> 
> adding a verbose to the mail command doesn't give any more details.
> I tried running newaliases, but that didn't make any difference.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I did that once on a setup. First you want to make sure you can mail to an
external address. You have this already covered.
What I did next was a .forward file to the system users home directory.
Content of the file was the external email address.

This worked in my case.

Cheers,
Bene

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