How to get send mail without localhost.localdomain

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 28 March 2009 22:38:14 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 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.
>
I've already told you how to get all root's mail.  Then logwatch.conf simply 
has

MailFrom = Logwatch
and
MailTo = root

I then get a mail with the subject 'Logwatch for aa1 (Linux)' addressed to 
root, but it comes into my mailbox.

Anne
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