[NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring emailed reports

Jay Urish j at yourlinuxguru.com
Fri Sep 13 09:13:30 CDT 2002


just edit your /etc/aliases or /etc/postfix/aliases and alias root to 
whatever real mail account you pull from outside of your intranet.

p.s don't forget to run newaliases or postalias


At 09:06 AM 9/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a small server that connects my home [office] network to my
>DSL.  The server provides a firewall, Apache, squid, & squidGuard, and
>gives everyone access to a large HD via Samba.  None of the services
>are accessible from outside of the firewall.  I do not host my own
>email; all of my email accounts use smtp and pop3 servers that are
>outside of my network.
>
>I would like to configure the server so that system-generated email
>uses the smtp of an external email account, instead of holding it,
>waiting for me to remember to check my "server mail". Would that
>be difficult to set up? Could someone give me a couple of sentences
>of what needs to be done?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Rick Matthews
>
>
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