Exim4 and root aliases? Send a copy to root?
When setting up my raspberry pi to use local email (using exim4 as the default MTA on Raspbian/Debian), and while doing the debconf initial configuration, I was asked whether to forward root's email to my user account, and I did. In retrospect I wish I had also included root, as well as my user account (let's call it user1). In other words, any mail sent to root should in fact go to both root and user1.
Changing the alias in /etc/aliases to
root: user1, root
makes no difference. How do I now "CC" root's email to the root mail inbox, in addition to receiving it as user1, after the fact?
debian email raspberry-pi exim mail-transport-agent
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When setting up my raspberry pi to use local email (using exim4 as the default MTA on Raspbian/Debian), and while doing the debconf initial configuration, I was asked whether to forward root's email to my user account, and I did. In retrospect I wish I had also included root, as well as my user account (let's call it user1). In other words, any mail sent to root should in fact go to both root and user1.
Changing the alias in /etc/aliases to
root: user1, root
makes no difference. How do I now "CC" root's email to the root mail inbox, in addition to receiving it as user1, after the fact?
debian email raspberry-pi exim mail-transport-agent
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
add a comment |
When setting up my raspberry pi to use local email (using exim4 as the default MTA on Raspbian/Debian), and while doing the debconf initial configuration, I was asked whether to forward root's email to my user account, and I did. In retrospect I wish I had also included root, as well as my user account (let's call it user1). In other words, any mail sent to root should in fact go to both root and user1.
Changing the alias in /etc/aliases to
root: user1, root
makes no difference. How do I now "CC" root's email to the root mail inbox, in addition to receiving it as user1, after the fact?
debian email raspberry-pi exim mail-transport-agent
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
When setting up my raspberry pi to use local email (using exim4 as the default MTA on Raspbian/Debian), and while doing the debconf initial configuration, I was asked whether to forward root's email to my user account, and I did. In retrospect I wish I had also included root, as well as my user account (let's call it user1). In other words, any mail sent to root should in fact go to both root and user1.
Changing the alias in /etc/aliases to
root: user1, root
makes no difference. How do I now "CC" root's email to the root mail inbox, in addition to receiving it as user1, after the fact?
debian email raspberry-pi exim mail-transport-agent
debian email raspberry-pi exim mail-transport-agent
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
asked 5 hours ago
hazizhaziz
93331435
93331435
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It is not enough to edit /etc/aliases, you need to run:
sudo newaliases
and then
sudo service exim4 restart
From man newaliases
Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail
aliases file
/etc/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for
the change to take effect.
answered 3 hours ago
Rui F RibeiroRui F Ribeiro
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It is not enough to edit /etc/aliases, you need to run:
sudo newaliases
and then
sudo service exim4 restart
From man newaliases
Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail
aliases file
/etc/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for
the change to take effect.
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It is not enough to edit /etc/aliases, you need to run:
sudo newaliases
and then
sudo service exim4 restart
From man newaliases
Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail
aliases file
/etc/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for
the change to take effect.
answered 3 hours ago
Rui F RibeiroRui F Ribeiro
41.3k1481140
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It is not enough to edit /etc/aliases, you need to run:
sudo newaliases
and then
sudo service exim4 restart
From man newaliases
Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail
aliases file
/etc/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for
the change to take effect.
answered 3 hours ago
Rui F RibeiroRui F Ribeiro
41.3k1481140
It is not enough to edit /etc/aliases, you need to run:
sudo newaliases
and then
sudo service exim4 restart
From man newaliases
Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail
aliases file
/etc/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for
the change to take effect.
answered 3 hours ago
Rui F RibeiroRui F Ribeiro
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