Help Getting Root's email to recipient

[Don Russell]

tonydm wrote:

> I have edited the line following #Person 
> who should get root's mail in /etc/aliases to read root: 
> me-user at myemailaddress.com (example to state the obvious).  I have then 
> run newaliases.  Here's my trouble, or lack of understanding.  I am not 
> getting any of the roots messages.  I do not have a mailserver running 
> on this box.  Sendmail is stopped.  

There's the problem... /etc/aliasses is used by sendmail. Start sendmail.

> How should I/or should I need to 
> configure an email account in thunderbird or the like?  How do I forward 
> the roots mail to me-user at myemailaddress.com?  I'm missing something 
> obvious, but this greenhorn could use your help.

Setting up /etc/aliases is fine... you just need to start sendmail.

There are probably a few other things you need to configure in 
sendmail... like your ISP server names etc. Try using the "smarthost" 
feature...