what service tries to send email to root@bubba.excito.com?

[dsp76]

Hi,
my mail.logs shows that my bubba tries to send email to root@bubba.excito.com regularly. Did I forget some adjustment, when I set up my bubba? Any ideas what could send this email?

regards
dsp

[tor]

These mails are sent due to either mail with no recepient, bounces, or they are sent as confirmation on cron jobs. These mails are always adressed to root on the local machine.

The reason for the "@bubba.excito.com" is due to how Bubba is originally configured. You can change this in the file /etc/mailname

/Tor

[Cheeseboy]

I changed my /etc/mailname to localhost, and then I can see that the emails end up in the root home directory. But how do I read them? mail refuses to accept them no matter how I set my $MAIL variable...
Ideally I would like them to be aliased to admin. Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

[tor]

Cheeseboy,

You should be able to change to whom these mails are delivered. All this mail is sent to postmaster and then postmaster is aliased to root.

So to change who gets these mail, edit the file /etc/aliases and either change the root to admin or any other adress. When done you have to regenerate the alias database by running

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postalias /etc/aliases

and possibly restart postfix.

More information on how to do this can be found in the manpages for aliases

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man aliases

/Tor

[Cheeseboy]

Thank you Tor!
Now my admin inbox is full of cron notifications

Cheers!

[Ubi]

The reason for the "@bubba.excito.com" is due to how Bubba is originally configured. You can change this in the file /etc/mailname

/Tor

Can you *please* change that to 'localhost' or something in the next software release? No one benefits from this bizarre default (unless you plan to hire us all to your company).