root's mail

[Damien Hull]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 11:41 -0800, Damien Hull wrote:
> > I'm trying to forward roots mail to an external address and it's not
> > working. Here's what I have.
> >
> >
> >      1. Ubuntu 10.04 server
> >      2. Postfix
> >      3. Aliases file configured with root: user at example.com
> > Mail is hosted on Google which gets the email. However, the mail ends
> > up in the spam folder saying that it was trying to deliver it to
> > root at example.com. It should deliver it to user at example.com.
>
> I'd guess the SPAM filter is comparing the 'To:' line in the message
> header with the envelope address which are different and flagging the
> message as SPAM.  There should be a way to adjust the filter to allow
> the email to pass the SPAM test.
>
>
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Turns out it was a miss configuration on my end. All mail to root would go
to "root at hostname". Postfix wasn't configured to except "root at hostname".
Once I fixed it all was well.

Not sure why the postfix error email was sent to my Google account. Anyway,
it works and I'm happy.





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