Linux – SSMTP to forward root@localhost mail

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I would like to forward mail that gets sent root@localhost on multiple servers to our company admin account (e-mail is hosted on gmail)

I have installed ssmtp on centos 5.5 via yum and configured it. i've also changed the last line in /etc/aliases to reflect where mail to root should go to.

I've then tried sending mail to root – this gets delivered without a problem (mail -v root)
I've also tried sending mail to root@localhost – this is not delivered to the specified gmail account.

Best Answer

Unfortunately, ssmtp does not read ~/.forward. Here is a quote from the ssmtp manpage.

It does not do aliasing, which must be done either in the user agent or on the mailhub. Nor does it honor .forwards, which have to be done on the recieving host. It especially does not deliver to pipelines.

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The behavior is described in http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html in the paragraph of Address Extension:

   For  example,  with  "recipient_delimiter  =  +", mail for
   name+foo is delivered to the  alias  name+foo  or  to  the
   alias  name,  to  the  destinations  listed in ~name/.for-
   ward+foo or in ~name/.forward, to the mailbox owned by the
   user name, or it is sent back as undeliverable.

But to be honest: Ditch that provider. Letting you configure mail forwarding only by .forward files is technology of the last century.

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