Change email address?

Zeno McDohl · 02-05-2006, 02:22 PM

My mail server is working, but how would I set the email name? I don't have a domain. When it sent an [automatic] email, the email address was from: root@linux_zeno.localdomain

Netizen · 02-05-2006, 02:39 PM

and the email client you are using is..................

Zeno McDohl · 02-05-2006, 02:40 PM

What? I'm not using X or anything... this is a server...

Netizen · 02-05-2006, 02:46 PM

oh right...evidently didn't catch on this is a script or program sending the email. Well, your mail program that sends the email is going to use root@<whatever your hostname is> in most cases.

Have you edited the 127.0.0.1 line in the /etc/hosts file?

Zeno McDohl · 02-05-2006, 02:49 PM

This?

Code:

127.0.0.1               localhost

I don't think that'll matter. It'll probably still send from root@whatever.

I just want to change the default email to one I have, like my gmail one.

Netizen · 02-05-2006, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeno McDohl

This?
I don't think that'll matter. It'll probably still send from root@whatever.

right.

Quote:

I just want to change the default email to one I have, like my gmail one.

If a program is generating the email, like Logwatch, then there may be a place to specify the account to send the email from in the conf files. If a script you wrote is sending the email, you can use a program like mail to generate the email with whatever "from" address you want. Both easy to do.

If you want to have your gmail account be the default no matter what is sent. Then you will want to reconfigure sendmail to rewrite the "from" address. If you are using slackware it will be sendmail, if you are using another distro, it may not be sendmail, but exim or something else. Either way you will want to consult the documentation on the program. Sendmail's configuration is not known as the most friendly, and configuring it to rewrite the from address is not something i have ever done.

Zeno McDohl · 02-05-2006, 03:57 PM

Hmm. Probably best not to change the default for everything. I found the script, but it's in perl and I don't understand it.

Code:

system ("mail -s \"Phantasia 4 Account Information\" $ARGV[2] < /tmp/$ARGV[2].mail");

That's the line that sends it. I need to use -r right? Would this work?

Code:

system ("mail -r "blahblah@gmail.com" -s \"Phantasia 4 Account Information\" $ARGV[2] < tmp/$ARGV[2].mail");