How to redirect local root mail to an external email?

How to redirect local root mail to an external email?

How to redirect local root mail to an external email address on Linux – Life in apps, OSs and code! I run a home file, media and backup server at home on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS.

Where do I put root’s local email address?

Any user, including root, can forward their local email by putting the forwarding address in a file called ~/.forward. You can have multiple addresses there, all on one line and separated by comma.

How do I forward my email to root?

Any user, including root, can forward their local email by putting the forwarding address in a file called ~/.forward. You can have multiple addresses there, all on one line and separated by comma. If you want both local delivery and forwarding, put root@localhost as one of the addresses.

How to get root and user ssh login email alerts?

Now login as root user and go to root’s home directory by typing cd /root command. Next, add an entry to the .bashrc file. This file sets local environment variables to the users and does some login tasks. For example, here we setting a an email login alert.

How to setup postfix to login to email account and deliver?

These options tell postfix to use SASL authentication when doing SMTP (ie delivering mail) and they also tell it to use TLS security when logging in. The relayhost option tells postfix the default server to use when relaying email, the :XXX value is the port number to use (another value you’ll have to dig out of your email provider’s help pages).

Where is the Postfix mail delivery status report?

[root@server /]# echo “Subject: sendmail test” | sendmail -v [email protected] Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to . I don’t see the email received at my forwarding address and I can’t figure out where the log of what happened is.

How to login to your email account and deliver?

So one of the first things you have to do is tell your system how to login to your email account so that it can relay email. Furthermore you may also have to, or want to, configure your system to use TLS/SSL when it logs in so that your username and password are protected.