Re: root's mail

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:09:10PM +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Does anyone know how to send mail to an IP address rather
> than a domain name, for example, sending mail to 
>  
>  [email protected]
>  
> I have put the IP address 1.2.3.4 in the 'local-host-names' file
> and restarted sendmail. Even that did not work. I get 
> "Unrouteable mail domain 1.2.3.4" error messages.
>  
>  Any ideas?
>  
>  Thanks, Jason
In /etc/ there is an aliases file. In that file you will see a
definition of the alias for root which can be any e-mail address.
After editing the file run the newaliases command.


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