[NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring emailed reports

[Jay Urish]

At 09:31 AM 9/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Rev. wRy wrote:
>
> > Why not just point the system mail to use an external address in
> > /etc/aliases?  ie - if the system mail is going to root, have an alias
> > set up for root pointing to an external account:
> >
> > # Person who should get root's mail
> > root:           someaccount at someisp.com
>
>Thanks to both you and Jay for your quick responses!
>
> > # Person who should get root's mail
> > root:           someaccount at someisp.com
>
>That makes perfect sense to me, but where do I tell it to use
><smtp.someisp.com>? Where do I store the userid and password needed
>for smtp authentication?

You don't have to... Thats how mail works. If you send your mail to 
foo at fatso.com, your server does a DNS query against fatso.com and looks for 
the MX record.
Thats how it knows where to send mail.