[CentOS] problems with .forward

Craig White
Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:29:36 -0000

You should set e-mail address for root in /etc/aliases and then issue command
'postman /etc/aliases' to alert postfix to the changes.

using a '.forward' has been out of vogue for many years

Craig

On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> My old Centos 5.5 servers had a /root/.forward to send things like
> logwatch to this email account.  It did not take any special
> configuration in sendmail for this to work.
>
> Now Centos 6.3 is using postfix (as we well know, and generally I am
> happy for this) and I have set up the /root/.forward as always, but it
> seems like postfix is ignoring it.  I have restarted postfix with no
> difference in behaviour.
>
> /root/.forward contains the single line without ending in <cr> (I
have
> tested with <cr> at the end as well:
>
> rgm at htt-consult.com
>
> 'host htt-consult.com' responses with:
>
> htt-consult.com mail is handled by 10 klovia.htt-consult.com.
>
> For the testing from my regular account I run:
>
> mail -s Test root  < /dev/null
>
> /var/log/maillog shows:
>
> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/pickup[30442]: 911731400CE: uid=500
from=<rgm>
> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/cleanup[30526]: 911731400CE:
> message-id=<20130304151604.911731400CE at onlo.htt-consult.com>
> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/qmgr[30443]: 911731400CE:
> from=<rgm at onlo.htt-consult.com>, size=471, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/local[30528]: 911731400CE:
> to=<root at onlo.htt-consult.com>, orig_to=<root>, relay=local,
delay=0.15,
> delays=0.08/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
> Mar  4 10:16:04 onlo postfix/qmgr[30443]: 911731400CE: removed
> You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
>
> Does anyone else use the .forward file?  This should work.  Of course I
> can modify the alias file for postfix, but .forward was always
'easier'
> to configure.
>
> If I have to plow through the postfix docs for this, I will, but I would
> think this should work.
>
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