How to get send mail without localhost.localdomain

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 22:38:14 UTC 2009


2009/3/28 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> I put a .forward in /root so that I can receive logwatch emails from
>> my desktop. But against everything I have tried, I can't get sendmail
>> to use root at example.com instead of root at localhost.localdomain
>>
>> I don't want to stick example.com in to /etc/hosts as it will mess
>> with other things (the workstation is not example.com, but
>> workstation.example.com)
>>
>>
> Is there any reason for not using "MailTo" in /etc/log.d/logwatch.conf ?

I suppose the only reason would be so as to not miss any other mail for root.

I am more concerned about the From address than the mailto though.

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