How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:23:18AM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:26 +0000, Chris G 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.
> 
> Just edit /etc/aliases file and change the below lines..
> 
> #root:	marc
> 
> to
> 
> root:	chris
> 
> (Or replace chris with whatever username that you use on that same
> machine.  You don't need the @domain.com part, just username if it
> belongs on that machine)
> 
> Also, run the command "newaliases" as root, after editing it.
> 
This doesn't work!  The whole problem is that mail to 'root' or
'chris' or whoever on the local system fails to get delivered.

The mail to root (before adding the entry you suggest above) was
failing.

-- 
Chris Green