mail for root

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:37 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:09 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> >   
> >> Hadders wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>  I should know how to do this, but 99% of the time, I don't care about 
> >>> the mail for root.
> >>>
> >>> Should I?
> >>>
> >>> Also, how would I turn this off?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Thanks people.
> >>
> >> Just another couple of questions.  If I want this to go to an external 
> >> email address, obviously I enter the address in the alias. But, how does 
> >> it get there?
> >> I assume I need sendmail running? and where do I configure the smtp-host 
> >> (external) that sendmail should use?
> >>     
> > ----
> > sendmail should be running...
> >
> > edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> >
> > find these lines...
> >
> > dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs
> > to
> > dnl # be sent out through an external mail server:
> > dnl #
> > dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')
> > dnl #
> >
> > edit per instructions
> >
> > restart sendmail
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >   
> Thanks craig,  any way I can test this from the commandline?
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mail someuser at somedomain.com

(hint use a . on a line by itself to end the mail)

Craig