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
