[BUGS] Much ado about Sendmail

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 08/01/2008, at 10:10 PM, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:

>
>>> I simply add my email to the root alias in the mail aliases file :)
>
> Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
>
>> As do I..
>>
>> But the system still sends mail to roots alias AS root, which means  
>> it
>> doesn't get masqueraded and thus is rejected by the mail server
>> because root at somebox.somedomain.com doesn't exist as far as the  
>> server
>> is concerned, however root at somedomain.com it would be perfectly happy
>> to accept..
>
> All my mail destined for root gets delivered locally on the respective
> machine. What did you change to make it otherwise? :)

I set the alias root: to an external address =p

Which is what I usually do because I don't have time to log in to  
every server and check the mail, I need it all sent to a central  
location, which is why I have a nice big imap storage space it all  
goes to.. I generally change the name of root in the passwd data base  
to reflect what server it is, rather than 'charlie root'.. But in this  
case I need to use masquerading for the server to accept mail from the  
box, so either the system mail needs to NOT come from root or root  
needs to get its address masqueraded, assuming that doesn't break  
internal stuff..