how to change my source address in sendmail??

[Yang Xiao]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:04:04 +0200, Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Am Mi, den 04.08.2004 schrieb Yang Xiao um 19:37:
> 
> > It is trivial if you just alias root account to another user account,
> > local or remote.
> >
> > in the /etc/aliases file add at the bottum, i.e
> >
> > root: postmaster
> 
> Unwise! As postmaster aliases to root.
> 
> > or even
> >
> > root: my at otheremail.com
> 
> This is correct, either to remote email address or a local user account.
> Recipients can also be more than 1 and you can configure that root keeps
> the mail too:
> 
> root:    \root, userA, userB, user at external.tld
> 
> > though I would not recommand this, but it's just this simple.
> 
> What wouldn't you recommend?
> 
> > Yang
> 
> Alexander

heh, maybe it's just me, I'm little concerned with the idea that
system messages intended for root to be transmitted all over the
internet and possiblly intercepted by someone.

As for Robin's problem, yes, some ISPs don't allow outgoing smtp
traffics, that might be why an external aliase may not work, but I
don't see what the problem is if you aliase it to a local account and
view it with mozzila, what's stopping you there?

Yang