How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[John Summerfield]

Tim wrote:
> Chris G:
>>> 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!
> 
> 
> Gijs:
>> 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).
> 
> Not necessarily...  You can have a mail client directly get mail from
> the /var/mail/<username> file, and avoid running a POP or IMAP server.

only if you want to read it on the host where the mail is stored. Some, 
maybe all, email clients in Fedora can read from /var/mail


> You still need to configure sendmail, though, so it understands the
> address you're giving root's mail to is for local delivery (sendmail
> keeps the mail internal).  To that end, username at localhost ought to work
> straight away.  If you had a private domain name for your system, you
> can use that, instead.  But you have to set up sendmail to accept that
> domain for local delivery.

In the case of my f8 system, I did only what I mentioned in another post.




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