root mail issue

[Drew Marshall]

Pete wrote:

> Sorry for the poor subject i cant think of a better one.
> My problem is small - i have a Freebsd, postfix, mailscanner, mailwatch
> server - all local mail generated form things like cron jobs and system
> type messages addressed to "root" are always sent to "root at myfqdn" which
> means the root messages all end up skewing my mail stats.
>
> I know its minor, but on previous mailscanner systems all mail to root
> was sent as localhopst mail not generating entries in the maillog.
>
> I tried to create an alias
> root:   root at localhost
> but still all mail is sent to root at myfqdn

In main.cf change myorigin to be $myhostname from $mydomain. All mail
submitted locally (I.e not through SMTP will  now come from host.fq.dn

Job done!

>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Pete


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