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I am new both for Limix and Scalix. In the /var/mail, there is a file "root", all system notice has been send to this file. How can I take those messages by Scalix?

You may be able to read those emails just by typing "Mail" on a shell as root.
Another thing you could do is to edit /etc/aliases and find the line that looks like this
postmaster: root

You can them change it to
postmaster: sxadmin

This way and can read those notifications as the sxadmin user.

jaime.pinto wrote:May may be able to read those emails just by typing "Mail" on a shell as root.
Another thing you could do is to edit /etc/aliases and find the line that looks like this
postmaster: root

You can them change it to
postmaster: sxadmin

This way and can read those notifications as the sxadmin user.

Do I need to reboot? I did the changes, but messages in root keep growing, and no one goes to sxadmin...

You will need to type "newaliases" on a shell each time you make a change on /etc/aliases

jaime.pinto wrote:You will need to type "newaliases" on a shell each time you make a change on /etc/aliases

still doesn't work. if I also need to change
mail: root
to
mail: sxadmin
?

Most of the generic accounts are aliased to root, so rather than change these individually you'll be better off adding a line at the end that says:



Most distros actually have such a line at the bottom of the aliases file, waiting to be uncommented & edited to suit. It usually looks like this in my experience:



And I've often wondered who marc is...

BTW, notice I didn't use sxadmin my example above - IMO this shouldn't be used as an everyday mailbox since it has super-powers - think of it as Scalix's root & use an ordinary Joe account to read the spam sent to webmaster etc...

btisdall wrote:Most of the generic accounts are aliased to root, so rather than change these individually you'll be better off adding a line at the end that says:

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root: user@example.com

Most distros actually have such a line at the bottom of the aliases file, waiting to be uncommented & edited to suit. It usually looks like this in my experience:

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#Person who should get root's mail
#root: marc

And I've often wondered who marc is...

BTW, notice I didn't use sxadmin my example above - IMO this shouldn't be used as an everyday mailbox since it has super-powers - think of it as Scalix's root & use an ordinary Joe account to read the spam sent to webmaster etc...

works great, thanks