Forwarding roots mail

[Joe]

I did this just by creating .forward in /root and adding the following:

joe at bean (bean is the home ocmputers names)

Hope this helps.

Joe


On 4/18/05, Tom <linxt at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi list:
> 
> After a fresh install of FC4t2, I'm having a problem getting roots mail
> forwarded to my mail account.  This feature was working for me under FC4t1
> and FC3 but not now.
> 
> I edited the /etc/aliases file to send roots mail to my account and ran
> newaliases but that didn't make any change.
> 
> Here is the message I'm receiving:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Returned mail: see transcript for details
>  Date: 04-17-2005 0429
>  From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at localhost.home>
>  To: root at localhost.home
> 
> The original message was received at Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:29:32 -0700
> from root at localhost
> 
>  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> root
>  (reason: 553 5.5.4 <root at localhost.home>... Real domain name required for
> sender address)
>  (expanded from: root)
> 
>  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to [127.0.0.1]:
> >>> MAIL From:<root at localhost.home> SIZE=3979 AUTH=root at localhost.home
> <<< 553 5.5.4 <root at localhost.home>... Real domain name required for sender
> address
> 501 5.6.0 Data format error
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> >From browsing the archives and sendmail documentation, I think I need to
> change something in sendmail.mc and then re-compile /etc/mail but I'm not
> sure of this and would like to get feedback before making any change here.
> I'm also not sure from the documentation exactly where the real domain name
> (FQDN?) needs to go.
> 
> This is a strictly in-home network with this computer being linux2.home
> 
> contents of /etc/hosts
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 192.168.0.10    linux.home      linux
> 127.0.0.1       linux2  localhost.localdomain   localhost       #<<<<< the way FC4t2 set it
> 192.168.0.20    dos.home        dos
> 192.168.0.30    win2k.home      win2k
> 192.168.0.40    betty.home      betty
> 192.168.0.50    laptop.home     laptop
> 192.168.0.100   test.home       test
> 192.168.0.15    linux2.home     linux2
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Hope someone can give me some clear direction here.
> 
> Thanks, Tom
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