Configure sendmail to forward root's email without DNS
For most of my professional life I tried to avoid sendmail whenever possible. Ever since qmail (and the myriad patches to it) got released I ran a couple of large scale setups for various ISPs successfully.
However, up to this day sendmail is FreeBSD's default MTA and I use it on all machines as the local mail delivery mechanism for system email (like the ones created by cron and periodic). So instead of trying to replace sendmail on all hosts I just tweak the configuration, so I can receive admin email in a centralized account without too much pain. For a couple of machines changing /etc/aliases might be enough, but there are some machines without DNS or public Internet access, for those the setup gets a little bit more complicated. This blog post obviously isn't for the sendmail savvy system administrator, but for people like me, who want to spend as little time as possible with sendmail and have it just in the background and do its job.
