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At about 2Mb/hour.

Now that is bad enough, how do I process this mail, Webmin's interface?

And I have looked at some of this mail with Webmin.

I get an email to a non-existant user. It gets routed to root.

root turns around and sends a bounce to the sender.

Scalix cannot send mail, sender does not exist, so delivers mail back to root!

Perhaps if at least Scalix would drop any mail from root@localhost to a non-existant user, that would be a big help.

Add your domain name to /etc/mail/local-host-name. Then restart sendmail.

You may also want to edit /etc/aliases so that mail for root is delivered to a user within Scalix (I usually choose sxadmin).

Kev.

kanderson wrote:Add your domain name to /etc/mail/local-host-name. Then restart sendmail.

So say my server is: mail.foo.bar So I want to add foo.bar or foo.bar. to local-host-name?

You may also want to edit /etc/aliases so that mail for root is delivered to a user within Scalix (I usually choose sxadmin).

What is the format of this? I see how to aliase to another Linux user, but not to full mail name. Will the mail still be to: root@mail.foo.bar or will sendmail or Scalix overwirte the To: header?

Yes, that's correct, just use the email address in user@domain.com form inside the aliases file.

Generally, I'd put foo.bar as well as mail.foo.bar. Be aware that Suse seems to have a habit of rewriting your outbound email address when you do this, so check that everything is correct after you make this change.

Kev.

Kevin

are you saying this

Personally, I'd put that back to root, then at the top of that file, there will be an entry for root. Change it to be something like:

root: sxadmin@server.com

Kev.

like this?

That's the one.

Now at the command line, type newaliases, and you're done. Root will no longer get email, it will all go to sxadmin.

Kev.