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I used to use ssmtp on Debian Stretch. Whenever there are system emails, they would get sent to my admin email. It was quite good because I would get a report on all my servers. This was true until in Debian Buster ssmtp was discontinued in the package manager. So I removed it for security reasons.

What I did in ssmtp, besides configuring the authentication, was just editing the file /root/.forward and writing there the email address where I'd like to receive my messages. And everything would work just fine.

But now, with msmtp, I don't get that anymore. I don't know how to make it do the same.

Now the configuration of msmtp is correct. I can verify this by running:

echo "hello there username." | msmtp -a default myemail@example.com

And that works just fine and sends me an email.

How can I get msmtp to send me system emails to some target address?

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It turns out you have to define the an aliases file. Instructions can be found here.

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