From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 14:32:58 CDT

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Steven Peterson:
> Hi All,
>
> I want all root messages to simply go to an external email address. To
> do this, I updated the /etc/aliases file and added the following entry
> at the end:
> root: myemailsomedomain.com
>
> Then I ran newaliases, then stopped and restarted postfix. But when I
> locally sent a test email to root, the message ended up in root's local
> mailbox, and was not sent to myemailsomedomain.com. I thought the
> /etc/aliases file could have email address on the RHS. Am I
> misunderstanding something?
>
> I am using Postfix 2:2.2.8-1.2, on Fedora Core 5.

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