How to get mail to local destinations delivered?
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 11 12:02:31 UTC 2007
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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John
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