Ticket #125 (new defect) — at Version 2

Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

Mail to root bounces from root@mit.edu

Reported by: andersk Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Spring 2010
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description (last modified by jdreed) (diff)

With debathena-msmtp-mta, when you send a mail to root, msmtp attempts to deliver it to root@…, which bounces. Since root receives important automated messages, e.g. “Your hard drive is dying! Love, smartd”, we want to be able to configure root mail to go somewhere useful. Full support for /etc/aliases would be even better.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed

  • Component set to --
  • Milestone set to Summer 2010

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Milestone changed from Summer 2010 to Spring 2010

This is related to #83. At the very least, root should be dealt with. However, chances are no one will ever read root's local mail. Once we get this working, the installer should offer to configure the local MTA to forward root's mail somewhere useful (like, say, the user's MIT account).

Moving this to Spring, since we really want auto-update to be able to whine loudly at the user when necessary.

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