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Route Administrative Mail to a Real Administrator

By default, administrative notices are dumped into the root mailbox, often never to be seen.

Here, we make sure administrative notices are e-mailed to a real administratior where they have a chance of being seen and acted upon.

Root Mail

This assumes the server is already able to send mail. This is frequently not the case in the modern world.

See also: SSMTP

To forward administrative mail to a real user, edit /etc/aliases:

vi /etc/aliases

Edit the bottom of the file:

# Person who should get root's mail
root:           you@your.domain

Then run the newaliases command to activate the changes:

newaliases