[wellylug] Default email account for Ubuntu servers

[Hong Chyr]

Thanks Jim!



Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 15:33, Hong Chyr <hongchyr at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Yes, just add
> root: alert
> to your /etc/aliases and you are done.[1]  You can use
> '/usr/sbin/exim4 -bt root' to verify where/how it will be delivered.
>
> Jim
>
> [1] On Ubuntu, if the /etc/exim4/lowuid-aliases file exists you can
> change it there... or by reconfiguring the exim4 package to set
> DEFAULT_SYSTEM_ACCOUNT_ALIAS to the desired value... "alert" in your
> case.
>
>
>   

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