sendmail problem

[j773303]

I've question about sendmail. When use "sendmail -void root < /etc/host",
the root doesen't receviced the mail. But the mail received by informix user. I've no .forward in root home directory. Does anyone knows any configuration would caused this problem? Thanks

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

check you aliases in the /etc/mail/aliases file.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[whiteknight]

Hi,

your command
#sendmail -v root < /etc/hosts, looks fine to me.

You may want to capture verbose output and post here.

WK

[Joelmel Roche]

Assuming that Sendmail has been correctly configured and is working
properly, perform the following steps to configure Sendmail to send
'root's' mail to a specific system:

1. Add the following entry to the '/etc/mail/aliases' file:

root : root, user@hostname.com

Note: This entry instructs the system to keep a copy on the local
host and also send the mail to the specified user, in this
case, user@hostname.com.

2. Execute the following command:

sendmail -bi


Note: If you desire, you can execute the '/usr/sbin/newaliases'
command instead of the 'sendmail -bi' command.


/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

3. Test your configuration by sending a message to 'root':

mailx root

4. Execute one of the following commands to check the mail queue:

mailq