How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[Gijs]

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!
>
>   
You can send root's mail to a user like so (in /etc/aliases):
root: chris

But if you really want mail to get delivered to an emailaddress without
going through the internet, you'll have to setup your own pop3/imap
server, along with corresponding domain-setups (like John already
mentioned before). But is it really that big of a problem to go through
all this hassle? Setting your email address in the aliases file does
mean its a long round trip for the email, but in the end the mail does
get delivered to the correct person.
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