Fwd: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Derek Broughton]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> --- Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:30:47PM -0700, Leonard
>> Chatagnier wrote:
>> 
>> The above line shows 'orig_to' was 'root at ubuntu'.
>> Postfix forwarded this
>> to lcahat at sbcgobal.net, probably because of an alias
>> definition in
>> /etc/aliases (or /etc/mail/aliases).
...
> Right, but why is local(root) mail being sent to my
> web mail smtp instead of sent locally.  I do have a
> dead.letter file in $HOME which is the root mail I
> tried to compose using mail on CLI but couldn't figure
> how to send so did CTRL-C twice to abort. Is this a
> configuration issue of some kind?

I don't know the specific postfix configuration, but there should be an
option that says that mail sent to "ubuntu" is local.  I rather suspect in
this case the problem is that "ubuntu" is by definition not a valid domain. 
Without any "." in it, DNS lookups will tack on the "search" domain
from /etc/resolv.conf, probably resulting in lchata at ubuntu.sbcglobal.net.
-- 
derek