How to get mail to local destinations delivered?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Sun Nov 11 12:18:08 UTC 2007
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!
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Chris Green
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