On my mail server (which runs an exim4 smarthost) my /etc/aliases resembles:
# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
..
root: mgalea <---- Note
My /etc/mailname holds "galeahome.ca"
Any root bound mail on that machine is forwarded to [email protected]
by exim.
Thunderbird on my personal machine collects the mail from the mail server.
A thunderbird message filter "From Contains [email protected]" matches
the email and steers it to a mail subfolder entitled "root".
I get lots of mail from the UPS about power failures.
I can also send mail from various machines crontabs, e.g. every month a
crontab entry:
0 0 1 * * root COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l | mail -s "dpkg
revisions" [email protected]
will forward the current state of my dpkg revs on that machine, and goes
to the same thunderbird dir on my personal machine.
Does that work?
On 2023-12-22 14:44, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I figure this is probably a solved problem, but it's one I've never
looked at. And I admit to doing no research yet: I thought pointers
from this group would be the place to start.
I find I have a lot of mail generated by cron and the like on several
local machines, and I'd like to A) centralize that mail on a local
server, and B) be able to view that with Thunderbird. Platform is
Debian. It's not my intention to handle my Gmail or anything like
that: this is meant exclusively for handling mail from local
computers. Which would also mean the ability to send mail isn't
important.
Currently if I want to look at local administrative mail, I have to
use the nasty `mail` command from the "bsd-mailx" package. (Yes, I
could install mutt - I don't like it much better. I'm well aware it's
much more powerful.) But do I remember to look at these emails? No.
If instead each host forwarded these mails to a single host, and I
pointed Thunderbird at that ... I'd have some hope of managing this
problem better.
"exim4" is usually (not always) installed on Debian systems. It
claims to be an MTA: my knowledge of mail is so bad I don't even know
if that means it just "pulls" or is also capable of forwarding local
mail to another machine? And what would be the recommended server
software?
Another possible solution would be to send the mail directly to a
folder on the host that has Thunderbird without using a server? With
the snag that the host in question isn't always on, and I wouldn't
want it to run mail server software. Is that possible?
Yes, I know this is probably bigger than I think. I'd still like to
start poking around and finding out about it. Suggestions welcomed,
thanks.
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