Setting up mail forwarding for root to an external address

Send the mail for the root user to an external address.
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Patriek
14 October 2021:

In order to forward the email for the root user you need to create a .forward file in the root directory

sudo nano /root/.forward

Enter the address you want to forward the mail to in the file and save it. Now all emails will be forwarded to the address you specified.

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