General Information

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

Checklist

• Distro(s): Any

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