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Re: New 64bit installation: Exim4 Send to Root



On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:53:43PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> Logcheck, rkhunter and some others send their email notifications to root. 
> Exim4 does no allow emails to root. So root gets aliased and a couple of other 
> places are set so that the emails go to another user. I brought the 
> configuration files over from the old installation.
> 
> I have in /etc/aliases a line root:system_notification
> and in /etc/exim4/system.filter lines for saving header with Spam and Virus 
> marked to /var/mail/system_notification
> 
> Worked before, but not now. What am I doing wrong?
> 

As root:

dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4 

may do what you need to set up the aliases appropriately.

All the very best,

AndyC

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