How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[John Summerfield]

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:
echo t | mail -s t root
and have this:
[root at potoroo mail]# cat /var/mail/summer
 From root at potoroo.demo.lan  Mon Nov 12 05:29:24 2007
Return-Path: <root at potoroo.demo.lan>
Received: from potoroo.demo.lan (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
         by potoroo.demo.lan (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lABKTO5F008420
         for <root at potoroo.demo.lan>; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:24 +0900
Received: (from root at localhost)
         by potoroo.demo.lan (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lABKTOW3008419
         for root; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:24 +0900
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:24 +0900
From: root <root at potoroo.demo.lan>
Message-Id: <200711112029.lABKTOW3008419 at potoroo.demo.lan>
To: root at potoroo.demo.lan
Subject: t

t

[root at potoroo mail]#


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