On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:01:23PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> > >>> >>> I do something a little more educational. >>> >>> What I do is, first, choose my own top level domain. You've already found >>> problems with using someone else's domain, such as your IAPs. >>> >> It isn't "someone else's domain", it's mine! I have used a perfectly >> good way of telling my domain's main host that there is a subdomain >> elsewhere. > > Calm down, it's hard to tell from whois. > > I own (in various senses) several domains, but I don't use them my side of > my gateway to the Internet. > >> 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. > > Edit /etc/aliases > run newaliases > But the real issue is that I can't find *any* address that delivers mail locally. Therefore whatever I put in /etc/aliases as the actual recipient of root mail it fails. -- Chris Green
