On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:19:58AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > 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. > There is *no* incoming mail or outgoing mail, I read my mail elsewhere by connecting to a remote system using ssh. All I want is to be able to see mail sent to root on the local system so I can monitor it. > > I prefer postfix, I find it easier. > When I ran a mail server on this system I too used postfix, *much* easier to configure. But now I don't want any sort of mail server except to get the local delivery of root mail. > > ps > Please run this test and post the results: > telnet home.isbd.net 25 > ehlo fred > quit > Where from? It's not going to work from most places because the firewall doesn't allow connections on port 25, this system isn't intended to accept any mail from outside. -- Chris Green
