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Is it possible to set the root mail address to my gmail address? And if so how?

Would it work by just setting my email address in the following file?

/etc/aliases :

root: [email protected]

Or does it need to be a domain that is hosted on my webserver?

As a side note: not really sure this has to do with postfix I'm just starting to use freebsd as webserver trying to setup a mailserver using this tutorial

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Yes you can send email to an account outside your mailserver. But, it might not work out of the box.

Test it first from the commandline:

[root@host ~]# /usr/bin/mail -s "Test from $HOSTNAME" [email protected]

If the mail does not arrive at your gmail account, then you should see a reason why in /var/log/maillog . The most common reason that I see is that the host does not know how to route mail to the outside world, or does not have a Smarthost configured in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

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  • +1 Good point. Not every system will send mail to an external destination without some configuration. Feb 11, 2012 at 0:04
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    For Postfix, that should be /etc/postfix/main.cf and not something like /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
    – wzzrd
    Feb 11, 2012 at 7:45
  • actually In this case I'm using postfix but testing It like this is very usefull.
    – FLY
    Feb 13, 2012 at 14:31
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This will work fine. I forward root mail to off site mail addresses all the time.

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This will work, but you may have to set parameter append_at_myorigin=no in main.cf in case myorigin is set. Otherwise if you are sending locally to "root" postfix by default will append myorigin value to the domain part of the recipient.

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