Mail Aliases and Status Mail
Every OpenBSD system runs maintenance tasks daily, weekly, and monthly, and sends email messages with the results to the local root account. I discuss these maintenance jobs in Chapter 15. If you have more than a couple of servers, you should probably forward these email messages to a single central account.
The OpenBSD system redirects email messages addressed to local users to other users or remote email addresses, as configured in /etc/mail/aliases. Here are a few entries:
… # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster postmaster: root …
The original recipient appears on the left, followed by a colon, and a list of people to forward the messages to. If you have multiple recipients separate ...
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