The main purpose of these domains is to forward mail. This is done by entering the second email address into the 'Send copy to' field of the mailbox, thats all. According to your description, you want to send a copy of an email that arrives in a mailbox to another mailbox. Update: I recently ran through this tutorial on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS and found that in order to use the ‘postmap’ command you had to force permissions on the /etc/postfix directory, so if you receive errors such as ‘ postmap: fatal: cannot remove zero-length database file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied. Some providers host domains that have no (or only a few) local mailboxes. Do not add an email forward as what you want is not a forward and a forward cannot be added when you want to have a mailbox. Hope this will help some people looking to do the same 🙂 You should now be able to check your external email account, in this example I’ve used a gmail account! – Login to your external email account and you should then see your email (if its not in your inbox, check your SPAM folder!) Now restart Postfix:- service postfix restartĪnd to test, run the following command:- echo test | mail -s "test message" root So with you favioure text editor, lets edit the /etc/aliases file and add your username and external email address like so:- root: run this command:- newaliases – My home server is not set-up to receive any external emails etc.
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However sometimes you want to know if particular tasks have run successfully and to only have to check a single (external) mail account is much more reasonable, so I’m going to show you how to create a mail alias so emails get sent directly to your external email account.įirst of all you need to make sure that you have a mail server installed on your server, I have a default install of Postfix installed, I’ve not done any special configuration to it at all, it will simple be used to end emails externally. You can move among the messages much as you move between lines in ed(1), with the commands ‘+’ and ‘-’ moving backwards and forwards, and simple numbers.
Now obviously for cron jobs that do create output but you don’t care you can append the cron job line to redirect the output (by appending ‘ > /dev/null‘) like so:- 0 * * * * python /etc/example.py > /dev/null SSH (which is very rare) I get told about X amount of unread email in /var/mail/root. I have various cron jobs set-up for various task such as backing up external MySQL databases, web site data and other tasks.īy default, when a cron job runs and if the script or program that runs produces any output (text on the screen) this will email the cron user, in my case, I have setup cron jobs under the root user, therefore emails get sent to so everytime I login via.
So you have mail locally and in your GMail account. I run a home file, media and backup server at home on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. For instance: anotherlocalaccount In that way, you forward to local and to gmail mailboxes.
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