Re: root's offsite mail

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* root [090109 09:04 -0800]
>     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.

echo "root: 'your username' >> /etc/aliases.

In that case sendmailbased MTA's like exim sends root's mails to
'your username'.

Elimar


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