How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 11 12:01:23 UTC 2007


Chris G wrote:
>

>>
>> I do something a little more educational.
>>
>> What I do is, first, choose my own top level domain. You've already found 
>> problems with using someone else's domain, such as your IAPs.
>>
> It isn't "someone else's domain", it's mine!  I have used a perfectly
> good way of telling my domain's main host that there is a subdomain
> elsewhere.

Calm down, it's hard to tell from whois.

I own (in various senses) several domains, but I don't use them my side 
of my gateway to the Internet.

> This is total overkill for my actual requirement (which maybe I
> should have stated at the outset), I simply want mail to root on my
> Fedora machine to get sent to me rather than having to become root to
> read it.  No other mail is sent or read on this machine.
> 

Edit /etc/aliases
run newaliases


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Cheers
John

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