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Thanks Jim!<br>
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Jim Tittsler wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 15:33, Hong Chyr <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hongchyr@yahoo.co.uk"><hongchyr@yahoo.co.uk></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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@localhost, so
now I am wanting to create another user alert@localhost and channel all the
system emails to that user.
So I gather using the /etc/aliases trick will do the job?
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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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