root mail issue

[Drew Marshall]

Pete wrote:

> Drew Marshall wrote:
>
>> 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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> But these still appear in the maillog and still count as email in the
> email stats, they have added 600 to the total count for today - do to a
> failing cvs cron job - i would prefer not to add these to the message
> count for the day...just deliver to root and not appear on the mailwatch
> stat and pflogsumm stats.....

Ahh I see. Well don't put them through MailScanner. Just change your
header_checks file to read

/^Received:(.*)by host\.domain\.com\.au \(Postfix\)/   HOLD

Or what ever your host name is. This will then only hold SMTP delivered
mail and just allow loacally submitted stuff through by-passing MS.
Obviously only do this is you don't have anything other than system mail
being sent as direct injection (As against SMTP).

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