Thanks Edgar. That worked. This is what I was missing. I actually removed my .forward from the user01 account now and directly updated the aliases file to forward email to external email address.
Just for documentation purpose, here are the steps - $ doas vi /etc/mail/aliases file $ doas newaliases $ doas rcctl restart smtpd Regards. -- ~ajitabhpandey On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Edgar Pettijohn <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you restart smtpd? > > Sent from BlueMail <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=9531> > On May 10, 2017, at 6:03 AM, Ajitabh Pandey <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On an OpenBSD 6.1, I have default smtpd setup. >> >> I placed a .forward file in root's home and am able to receive the emails >> on an external address. >> >> I then removed the .forward from root's home and then placed a .forward in >> the home directory of normal user account (say user01). Emails directly >> send to user01 are being forwarded to external email address as expected. >> >> Next I edited the /etc/mail/aliases file and uncomment the line with root's >> name in it and placed an entry like - >> >> root: user01 >> >> After saving the file, I ran newaliases to generate /etc/mail/aliases.db >> file. >> >> This should forward all email's destined for root to user01 and >> consequently to external email address as user01's home has a .forward file >> in it. >> >> This is not happening. Any email sent to root is being delivered to the >> mailbox of root and the smtpd logs in /var/log/maillog confirmed the same. >> >> If my understanding about how this should work incorrect? If not then what >> am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks and Regards. >> >> -- Ajitabh Pandey http://ajitabhpandey.info/ | http://unixclinic.net/ | http://buddingthoughts.info ICQ - 150615062 Registered Linux User - 240748
