On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:53, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > Robert Slade wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:20, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > > > > > >>Matthew Miller wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:09:56PM +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>I can change that file but how do I tell my mail program to retrieve it? > >>>>In other words for a regular inet account I just need my user name my > >>>>password, and the mail server settings. How do I set it up to receive > >>>>this mail? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>It depends on your mail client. For many, looking at the local spool will > >>>just be the default. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>I swap back and forth now between Tbird and Evolution. Right now I'm > >>using Thunderbird. How would I go about it there? > >> > >> > > > >Matthew, > > > >Sendmail running on the FC box is what is handling the mail the root > >address is root@yourmachinename. If you edit that line to something > >like: > > > >root yourname@youraddress, sendmail will lookup the mx record and send > >the mail there. If this is your address at your ISP you should get it > >there depending on firewalls etc. > > > >Just my thoughts. > > > >Rob > > > > > > > > > > > but you mean in a different file than aliases right? Sorry, edit the file /etc/aliases and remove the # before root, and then add the e-mail address you want the mail sent to. Once you have done that run newaliases and it will create a new file that sendmail can read. Rob
