On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 03:35:55PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > > 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. > > I haven't followed the thread, > but what happens if you just say "mail -s Test chris" ? > It fails, sendmail attempts to send it to chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx which it decides is out there in the internet somewhere. -- Chris Green