Chris G wrote:
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.
my potoroo.demo.lan is very like your home.isbd.net, and that alias
works here. And I can send to summer@localhost.
A remaining difference I can think of is that I'm using DNS as I
described a while ago.
You are using a DNS (for outside users) and your hosts files, for
computers in the same domain. This is a setup I mostly avoid. I do do
that for herakles.homelinux.org, and incoming email addressed to
addresses in that domain get relayed inside my home network to another
system, and for that I need my own DNS with different information from
the public DNS.
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.
There is no necessary correlation between names the webserver uses and
the names the mail server uses to receive mail. Both can be configured
My mail server (running postfix, but sendmail does it too) can handle
mail for several domains.
I can ssh to 58.6.192.22, coco.merseine.nu, cds.merseine.nu and some
other names, it's all the same machines.
I don't normally use sendmail, it only gets installed when I do a manual
install and don't take the time to change software solutions.
I prefer postfix, I find it easier.
ps
Please run this test and post the results:
telnet home.isbd.net 25
ehlo fred
quit
and post the results.
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John
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