Aliases

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General Information

Get messages mailed locally to root, sent to your email.

Checklist

Configure your system's local email client to send correctly.

This is done using either postfix or sendmail.

Edit /etc/aliases

vim /etc/aliases
 
# Person who should get root's mail
root: myemail@provider.com

Run the newaliases command to update aliases

newaliases

Pre-Req