As someone else wisely suggested, the logs on both the sending mail server (whatever thunderbird is talking to) and your would-be receiving server are the place to start. I would also add that it's somewhat likely that the llnl.gov mail server is configured to accept *@*.llnl.gov as local to itself, so it may never try to resolve your hostname and deliver the message. ----- Original Message ----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue Mar 16 19:28:17 2010 Subject: sending mail to a server alias from a local email account doesn't work I configured sendmail on RHEL 5.4. I can send mail when I'm logged into the RHEL machine to root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and I recieve the mail in my Thunderbird inbox since I have root defined in /etc/aliases to go to martini1@xxxxxxxxx But when I try to send a message from my Thunderbird inbox email system on a different machine to root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I never receive it. Is there some other configuration I need to do with sendmail in order for this to work? I want to be able to send mail from any reader on any machone to aliases that are defined on this RHEL 5.4 machine. Thanks. Dave Martini LLNL -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
