Fwd: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>
Never setup a domainname(not networking literate). If
postfix sent the rootmail to
lchata at ubuntu.sbcglobal.net, it definately would
bounce as it's not my username for sbcglobal.net and
it also has password verification.
 command domainname=gateway.2wire.net which is also my
isp gateway/dns server.  Would I use then
username at ubuntu.2wire.net for local delivery.  Any
help/comments appreciated as I've never been this far
before.
Thanks,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net