Re: Re: How to send email to root?

John Greatwood wrote:
>
> On 23 Apr 2008, at 21:16, SurgeMail Support wrote:
>
>> surgemail-listnetwinsite.com wrote:
>>> When I am trying to
>>> #mail root
>>> Subject: test
>>> test
>>> <dot>
>>> CC:
>>> #Failed to send message to any users
>>> the msg.log shows:
>>> Rejected 127.0.0.1 <rootxxxxxxx.com> <root> 0  "mailfrom: Must

>>> contain a domain with dots if not blank"
>>> Please advise. Please note that numerous
packages and daemons report 
>>> errors and send logs to local root account.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unless you created the account "root" in
surgemail that it is not a 
>> valid email account.  SurgeMail takes no notice of
users on the *nix 
>> system.
>>
>> You can either create the root account in the
account section of 
>> surgemail or use a redirection rule and forward
emails to root to 
>> whatever account you want to view them on.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Stuart
>
> Hello.
>
> I am having this problem also. I need system generated
emails 
> addressed to <root> to go to memydomain.com. I can't create an 
> account or alias without including a domain name. I'm
sure this used 
> to work as root would go to rootdefault.domain which I
could then alias.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
On all my Linux boxes, I am runing Postfix.  I setup a
.forward in 
root's home directory.  Then I setup Postfix to send email
using SMTP 
AUTH to Surge.  Since the email does not leave Surge, Surge
is happy 
since the sender is now authenicated and does not reject
based on what 
it thinks may be an invalid from address.

Lyle