mail forwarding problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri May 25 16:05:15 UTC 2007


On Friday 25 May 2007, zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> I wanted to have the logwatch cron results mailed to me instead of root
> so I edited /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf to add this line:
>
> MailTo=SBlackwell
>
> Just for a sanity check
> $ whoami
> SBlackwell
> $ uname -n
> mylocalmachine
>
> <not really but just to show I checked that it matches the mail message>
>
> but root keeps getting returned mail saying
>
> <snip>
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> sblackwell
>     (reason: 550 5.1.1 <sblackwell at mylocalmachine>... User unknown)
>     (expanded from: sblackwell)
>
> <snip>
>
> The thing that stikes me is that my user name got changed from
> SBlackwell in the conf file to sblackwell in the mail message.
>
> Anybody else seeing this? Any comments?
>
Have you edited /etc/aliases on the line (near the bottom) that defines who 
should receive root's mail?  And did you remember to run 'newaliases' after 
you'd made the change?

Anne
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