On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:49:52AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > On 3/1/07, Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote: > >On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 00:36 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a Debian Etch as my desktop PC, and i want to configure it so > >> the system messages could be sent to my personal email, not to the > >> root mailbox on that system, it has exim any ideas? > >> > >> or I better install postfix? > >> > >> best regards, > > > >/etc/aliases > > > >make the root alias like this: > > > >root: guillermo.fedora@gmail.com > > > >That should do it. > Thanks, > > i have think about that, but my PC does not have a reverse lookup > name, so I think the email will be returned, I think i need to > configure exim, postfix, or sendmail to send email via an account > using a login and password, to use an authenticated smtp server. > > am I right? exim can certainly handle the mail for you, but maybe its easier to just set it root: guillermo or whatever your local account is. A
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