[TriLUG] Setting up roots email address?

[Jeremy Portzer]

Jason,

Read over his question a little more closely.  Your fix changes who
email *to* the root user is delivered to.  He wants to change where mail
*from* the root user appears to be *coming from*.

BP:

I'm not sure there's much that can be done when you use the basic "mail"
program.  You can fix the local hostname to update the
"localhost.localdomain" part (/etc/sysconfig/network and also your
postfix configs) , but the message will always appear to be from root
since "mail" is being run as root.  Alternatively you can write a script
that calls "sendmail -t" directly (should work under postfix too, since
postfix includes a sendmail wrapper) and then supplies the necessary
"From" header. 

--Jeremy

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:28, jason at cerient.net wrote:
> there is a line near the bottom of /etc/postfix/aliases that does this
> very thing.  change it to the user you want and run 'postalias
> /etc/postfix/aliases'
> 
> that'll do ya
> 
> > I started running Postfix at home and would like to know how you
> > associate a email address with root or another system user.
> >
> > When I execate a cmd like:
> >      cat afile | mail -s "My eml subj" recipent at domain.com
> >
> > The email arrives fine but appears to be from "root"
> > <root at localhost.localdomain>
> >
> > How would I change this system wide to a real name and email address?
> >
> > -bp
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