Actually, I think the problem is that my aliases are not being honored. grep root: /etc/aliases shows root: <a href="mailto:smbuthia@company.com">smbuthia@company.com</a><br>sendmail -bv root shows smbuthia@company.com... deliverable: mailer relay, host <a href="http://mail.company.com">mail.company.com</a>, user <a href="mailto:smbuthia@company.com">smbuthia@company.com</a><br>

<br>mail -s &quot;Test&quot; root shows that sendmail tried sending the email to root@localhost on my mail server and my mail server refuses to relay. However mail -s &quot;Test&quot; <a href="mailto:smbuthia@comapny.com">smbuthia@comapny.com</a> works well.<br>

I have ran newaliases and even make -C /etc/mail/ even though I haven&#39;t made any changes and restarted the sendmail daemon but still the problem remains and Google isn&#39;t helping much.<br><br>Doesn&#39;t someone know why aliases would fail to be honoured?<br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 May 2010 14:49, Simon Mbuthia <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:simon.mbuthia@gmail.com">simon.mbuthia@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

@Alex I had done that too<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 May 2010 14:46, Alex Nderitu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nderitualex@gmail.com" target="_blank">nderitualex@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
It would be easier to change the email address in logwatch.conf (/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf or /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf in Redhat systems, should be similar in other distros  ). Look for this entry;<div>



MailTo = which most likely points to report@localhost.localdomain and point to your address. </div><div><br></div><div>Mails for report are most likely not recieved by root and that is why changing aliases does not make difference. </div>



<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Simon Mbuthia <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:simon.mbuthia@gmail.com" target="_blank">simon.mbuthia@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>Ahem.... I&#39;m sure some geek lurking somewhere on the list can advise on this.... <br>


<br><br>I&#39;ll appreciate even a comment at least :)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 May 2010 16:02, Simon Mbuthia <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:simon.mbuthia@gmail.com" target="_blank">simon.mbuthia@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi guys,<br><br>More problems here. I have edited the alias file and assigned an email address to root, ran newaliases, but still logwatch is sending emails to report@localhost.localdomain - where localhost.localdomain is the FQDN of the box. I have not specified such an address anywhere. I have also set the SMART_HOST on <a href="http://sendmail.mc" target="_blank">sendmail.mc</a> to my mail server [and it&#39;s working OK] and ran make -C /etc/mail and restarted the sendmail service [yes, I&#39;m running sendmail as my default MTA].<br>







<br>What am I not doing right? <br><br><br>Me.<br>
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