On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:30:51PM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > root wrote: >> How can I get 'root' out of the 'From:' line of root's offsite mail? >> I've scanned the docs for exim4, mutt and mailx on this Debian >> etch(mostly) system but nothing found so far. >> I know I can send mail as another user but would rather >> find a solution that doesn't necessitate that. >> I tried Google but found no answer there. >> Thanks, >> Mike > In .muttrc you can add a 'set from' line: > > set from="mel...@aol.com" > > For system mail forwarded to a real address in /etc/aliases, you would > want something like Postfix's address rewriting rules like so: > > http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html
As aparant from the headers, he's running exim and the mail was not sent with mutt (the mailer has not set any user-agent header. I suspect the simpler 'mail' was used). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
