email of log messages

[ruscook]

Hi Robert,
thanks for the advice. It was not /etc/aliases. I'd edited /etc/mailname
for squirrelmail to use my ISP's domain to send mail via. I've now
diagnosed it to this, as I've found out through investigation that
postfix also uses this file. Postfix was therefore forwarding these
messages to my ISP who bounced them - don't know why I missed the bounce
messages but when I sent messages manually I got them which gave me the
clue. I've now told squirrelmail what domain to use explicitly and
changed /etc/mailname back to the localdomains and all seems well.

Will test over a couple of days to confirm.

Kind Regards Russ


On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:52 +0000, Robert Slade wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 22:41 +1100, Russell Cook wrote:
> > I don't know what I've done but it's evidently something. Cron and
> > other system tasks are no longer being emailed to root. This is on my
> > breezy server and dapper desktop.  It's since the beginning of Feb
> > this year.
> > 
> > imap mail and fetchmail are both working on the breezy server so I
> > can't think of what I've changed (although it's obviously something)
> > 
> > Any ideas on what I should look for to turn this feature back on?
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> Russell,
> 
> Have a look at /etc/aliases it maybe redirecting the mail to a different
> address.
> 
> ISTR that cron etc uses postfix to actually send the mail, is this
> running?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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