On 20110507_195157, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 07. 05. 2011 19:43:32 je Paul E Condon napisal(a): > >On 20110507_191456, Klistvud wrote: > >> Dne, 07. 05. 2011 19:05:24 je Paul E Condon napisal(a): > >> >I recently did a complete reinstall of Squeeze and said yes to the > >> >question about popcon. Today I get an email from saying that it > >can't > >> >deliver email from r...@big.lan.gnu, which the host name > >internal to > >> >by home lan. I think that the correct way to handle this is to have > >> >email to root forwarded to me, but I can't remember (and can't find > >> >instructions for) how to do this. Please help with a reminder. > >> > >> Is /etc/aliases what you have in mind? > > > >Yes, thankyou. > >But there is still a problem. Everything in /etc/aliases looks to be > >just as I remember it, so there is nothing to fix. But then how did > >this email get generated? It's a puzzle. And it may be a while until > >Debian starts getting my contribution to popularity. Oh well. > > > > Then perhaps you need to configure exim4? Without it, the mail will > only be delivered locally (to the local root user by default).
I'm pretty sure that I have configured exim4 correctly. I'm using the host on which this happened to get to this list for help. It has already worked twice at doing that. I know that I have been having some problems configuring a new router, and many strange things have happened because of mistakes in router config, and in undoing those mistakes. I think I will wait until I get another failed delivery message. Maybe this problem will go away without me ever having to figure out why it happened. Your pointing to /etc/aliases was a great help in jogging my memory. I, of course, had never entered an alias for root into it, because it has always been done automatically for all the time that I have been using Debian. That it contains this little attention to detail was one of the reasons that I have been happy with Debian from when I started about a dozen years ago. This problem might come back, but I will be not at all surprised if I never see it again. And I still have some indications that other things need work, for now. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110507194727.gc17...@big.lan.gnu
