On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've > noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are > confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to > root@sedgenet or tyler@sedgenet. sedgenet is just a made-up domain I > picked when I set up my laptop, but now I see that I need to tweak > something so that system-generated emails are properly routed. So > should I change my etc/mailname, or is there some way to set an alias > such that tyler@sedgenet and root@sedgenet are actually delivered to > real email addresses. You could also setup your mail client to check your local mailbox. Sylpheed and Claws-Mail can do this and I bet others as well. Or you could just use 'mail' on the console, or are you expecting a lot of local mail? If your exim is properly setup to send mail to the internet you could also add an alias in /etc/aliases, but that would make all local mail go across the internet, through your mailserver. Do you want that? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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