How to get mail to local destinations delivered?

[John Summerfield]

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

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