Security Emails

[Craig Skinner]

Greg Bosch wrote:
> setup security based emails to go to personal email address (domain 
> outside the local network)
> 2. if it is a better idea to keep them on the box then how do I do that 
> given that my machine does not have a valid DNS record
> what do I put as the address if I would like them to go to the root's email?
> 

There are default daily security and other mails to root with OpenBSD. 
How are you reading these at the moment?

You will obviously have a non-root user account on the machine, so just 
send the mails there. Edit /etc/mail/aliases to send root's mail to 
yourself.

Read it with mailx.