How to redirect mail for root to external adress

Hi,

I fear that this is a stupid question, but how do I tell exim (4, debian) to
forward mail for root to an external adress?
I had just something like
root: someone@somewhere.org
in /etc/aliases
but that doesn't work.

regards
Alex
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Alexander Gran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I fear that this is a stupid question, but how do I tell exim (4, debian) to
> forward mail for root to an external adress?
> I had just something like
> root: someone@somewhere.org
> in /etc/aliases
> but that doesn't work.
>
> regards
> Alex

Worked for me, are you running eximon to see if there are any error
messages?