aliases issue using /etc/aliases

lensem · 04-01-2009, 12:33 PM

I am able to send a mail message to myself from a server without any problem...

But after I have updated /etc/aliases and added the line for all of root's mail to be routed to me....

Added:
root: myemail@company.com

and ran newaliases to implement it....

If I send a mail message to root, it does not get routed to my email...

Any suggestions ??

bathory · 04-01-2009, 01:32 PM

You didn't say what smtp server you're using, but anyway did you restart it after running newaliases?

lensem · 04-14-2009, 12:43 PM

Using sendmail (sendmail-8.13.1-3.3.el4)

The issue appears to be with the /etc/aliases, I've done a newaliases command and restarted sendmail but in the maillog file, outgoing mail is being sent to root, whereas, on working servers, the email address that is in the /etc/aliases file is being used, which is what I would expect to happen...

repo · 04-14-2009, 12:48 PM

do you see any pointers in the logfiles, if you sent the mail?