On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:32:29AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: >>> 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@xxxxxxxx, >>>>> you can add to that file: >>>>> root: [5]root@xxxxxxxx >>>>> >>>> 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@localhost perhaps >>> >> I have tried:- >> chris@localhost >> chris@xxxxxxxxxxx >> chris@[192.168.1.1] >> and sendmail tries to send the *all* to the outside world! > Oh. > I have a freshly installed f8 box. I just did this: > [root@potoroo mail]# tail -4 /etc/aliases > decode: root > > # Person who should get root's mail > root: summer > [root@potoroo mail]# > it works, I did this: OK, but that isn't my situation. My system is (quite validly) called home.isbd.net, I need to know how to make it work the same as yours for mail within the system. I need it to be called home.isbd.net so that the web browser sees home.isbd.net and I can ssh to home.isbd.net which both currently work correctly. -- Chris Green
