From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 16:45:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B28D37B405 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from visimation.com (visimation.com [206.169.230.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE8143ED4 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adaml@visimation.com) Received: from Spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) ID MO000004; 3 Jan 03 16:45:47 -0800 Received: from spooler by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31); 3 Jan 03 16:45:40 -0800 Received: from 5adam5 (10.0.0.111) by visimation.com (Mercury/32 v3.31) with ESMTP ID MG000003; 3 Jan 03 16:45:36 -0800 Reply-To: From: "Adam Lofstedt" To: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: Redirecting root's email Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:45:44 -0800 Organization: Visimation, Inc. Message-ID: <000e01c2b38a$9d9ac5a0$6f00000a@5adam5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having trouble redirecting root's email to an external email account. This is a 4.7-Release box with not very modifications done to the standard installation. I have tried creating a .forward file and placing it in /root with my external email address in the file. No luck. I tried editing /etc/aliases and changed the line: #root : me@my.domain to: root : adaml@visimation.com and then I ran the newaliases command. Still no luck. I think it has something to do with name resolution, but I'm not sure what's going on. In /etc/hosts I have the following: 127.0.0.1 localhost.visimation.com localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx forcefield.visimation.com forcefield xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx forcefield.visimation.com. In /etc/resolv.conf I have this: Domain visimation.com Nameserver 10.0.0.x When I look at /var/spool/clientmqueue, it is full of messages. Here is a snippet of one: **************************** V6 T1041606452 K1041638852 N19 P1651680 I116/131076/293 MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. Frs $_localhost $r $slocalhost ${daemon_flags}c u SMAILER-DAEMON MDeferred: Operation timed out with localhost.visimation.com. C:root rRFC822; root@forcefield.visimation.com RPF:root H?P?Return-Path: <=81g> H??Received: from localhost (localhost) by forcefield.visimation.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h03F7WAs006196; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:07:32 -0800 (PST) H?D?Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:07:32 -0800 (PST) H?F?From: Mail Delivery Subsystem H?x?Full-Name: Mail Delivery Subsystem H?M?Message-Id: <200301031507.h03F7WAs006196@forcefield.visimation.com> H??To: root H??MIME-Version: 1.0 H??Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=3Ddelivery-status; boundary=3D"h03F7WAs006196.1041606452/forcefield.visimation.com" H??Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours H??Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout) . ******************************* Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks a lot, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message