Easy to ignore the mail notifications on a linux computer/server.
Why not add a forward to the email on the root user to an email address?
Forward File
Simply create the file /root/.forward and place your email address in this file. It will be forwarded to your external mail address.
We can simply create .forward file in the folder root and add an email address there.
# vi /root/.forward
Example content:
system@example.com
Restart the postfix server
# systemctl restart postfix.service
Aliases File
vi /etc/aliases
Add email ids at the bottom of the file.
root: support@example.com
To add multiple email ids, we can simply separate them by comma.
root: support@example.com, hello@example.com
Step 2: Run the aliases command, to compile aliases file.
newaliases
Step 3: Restart mail server
You may find that the mail server requires a restart to adopt the changes. Shown below, as an example, is the entry for postfix.
systemctl restart postfix.service
