Tymestream Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 I am trying to get postfix to forward my root email to an outside pop3 account and it does not seem to be working. I have placed the .forward file in root's home (/root) and added the email address that I want it sent to (someone@somewhere.com) and then chmod 0600 the .forward file, but still all system mail (including other local users mail) is being sent to postfix@mymachinename.com...I am stumped. No net resources I located could help me on this one. As usual, thanks in advance. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 My preference is to use a procmail rule. Add this to your /etc/procmailrc file. This will keep and a copy and foward the email. :0Hc * ^X-Original-To: <email address to be forwarded> ! <destination address> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Postfix by default sends all root and internal mail to its own postfix mail box (weird eh?) Another way to change this is If you have webmin installed. You can just find the user accounts, click on the root account and alter it from postfix to you@whatever.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted January 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Thanks Dyslexic, I think the procmail file is better than the .forward file and will consider this. Anon, I do have webmin installed and understand what you mean but I cannot seem to find where I would change that setting you mentioned. Is it under servers>postfix config or under system>users? I use webmin quite a bit...but there are so many options. Appriciate clarification. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted January 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Follow-up Sort of answered my own question - I was able to alias postfix and root to the email address that I wanted. (If previous msg was regarding alaises - please disregard my last question) Anyway - just to make things interesting - one more question. I trying access this new local mail account through kmail and I keep getting the error "could not lock /var/spool/mail/user" and I do not understand why? I know this may seem a little convoluted, please bear with me. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Yes, its in servers>>>>postfix config>>>>mail alias and then click on root. Can't help you with Kmail, have never used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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