how to change user@localhost.localdomain to user@host?
 

Hi all,

How do I configure my Fedora 6 system so that when I use the "mail" program in terminal and in scripts the From address is user@host instead of user@localhost.localdomain?

The correct host name of my system is set in:

/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/hosts

and it is displayed accordingly at, for example, the bash prompt. But there must be some other location that is needed as well. Can anyone help?

TIA

Read man hostname for the details;

as root type hostname MyComputerName

[lenard@DESKTOP2400 ~]$ ls
Backgrounds Desktop google-earth IFU Matrox.txt
bin Downloads Hardware.txt iptables Personal

Thanks, but hostname doesn't seem to affect the mail program. It must be some setting buried deep in sendmail.

Oddly enough, this is setup correctly by default under Ubuntu; no localhost.localdomain stuff From:, just user@host.

Ha, I found the solution; it is in this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=230040

It involves setting the hostname in this file /etc/mail/local-host-names and restarting sendmail.