How to get mail to local destinations delivered?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Sun Nov 11 22:31:43 UTC 2007
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:32:29AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>>> Chris G wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 12:42:26PM +0100, Gijs wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want root's mail to get delivered to your own email address,
>>>>> you can use the file /etc/aliases.
>>>>> I think the last line of the file already describes it, but if you
>>>>> want root's mail to get delivered to [4]root at root.com,
>>>>> you can add to that file:
>>>>> root: [5]root at root.com
>>>>>
>>>> Ah, yes, but what do I put as my address in /etc/aliases? I can't
>>>> find an address that makes sendmail send it to me on this machine.
>>> chrisg at localhost perhaps
>>>
>> I have tried:-
>> chris at localhost
>> chris at 192.168.1.1
>> chris@[192.168.1.1]
>> and sendmail tries to send the *all* to the outside world!
> Oh.
> I have a freshly installed f8 box. I just did this:
> [root at potoroo mail]# tail -4 /etc/aliases
> decode: root
>
> # Person who should get root's mail
> root: summer
> [root at potoroo mail]#
> it works, I did this:
OK, but that isn't my situation. My system is (quite validly) called
home.isbd.net, I need to know how to make it work the same as yours
for mail within the system.
I need it to be called home.isbd.net so that the web browser sees
home.isbd.net and I can ssh to home.isbd.net which both currently work
correctly.
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Chris Green
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