[wellylug] Default email account for Ubuntu servers

[Hong Chyr]

Thanks guys for the reply.

Here's the summary of what I'm trying to achieve:

Newly installed Ubuntu 8.10 server, where the system was set up with 
Exim as the default MTA. In the installation process, Ubuntu (server or 
workstation) will usually put the first user account created as the 
default user who will receive all system emails (e.g. cron reports, etc)

So now, I want to change that default to another user account. e.g. when 
I install the system, the first user account I created was 
admin at localhost, so now I am wanting to create another user 
alert at localhost and channel all the system emails to that user.

So I gather using the /etc/aliases trick will do the job?

hong




Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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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