[wellylug] Default email account for Ubuntu servers

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Thu Apr 2 01:02:12 NZDT 2009


Hong Chyr <hongchyr at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> How can I change the default user account to receive all system
> notification emails for an Ubuntu server?

Usually, the entry for 'root' in /etc/aliases.  If you have to ask that,
don't forget to run 'newaliases' as root after changing that file.

The complex answer is that it is complicated, and you would need to tell
us about your system configuration — at the least, which MTA you are
using.

Regards,
        Daniel



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