How to stop root sending email to a private address

bstafford51 · 11-04-2010, 09:35 AM

system is RedHat v4. I removed root: admin-name@domain from /etc/aliases then ran /usr/bin/newaliases.

The admin does not get the emails but now the email generated by the cronjobs is being sent to my-name@domain outlook email from "root@localhost.localddomain". No other changes were made. Where should I start looking for the definition of sent crontab email to my-name@domain?

thanks

jwl17330536 · 11-04-2010, 10:29 AM

I would check /root/.forward to see if that is the culprit.

You can always search the server for the email address where the email is being sent: find <directory> -type f -exec grep -il "my-name@domain" {} \;

That will help you find what file is inserting this email address as the destination address.

bstafford51 · 11-04-2010, 12:52 PM

I may have solved this. It seems that an old but still valid smtp email address was in the /root/.forward file.

bstafford51 · 11-04-2010, 12:54 PM

I read the post after I found the .forward file. Thanks for your time though.