Sorry for taking so long. Here's the raw email file. Return-Path: <kennedydhcp...@chapman.edu> X-Original-To: maus...@chapman.edu Delivered-To: maus...@chapman.edu Received: from duncan-kennedydhcp146.chapman.edu (law254.chapman.edu [206.211.146.254]) by edric.chapman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8744D568F4 for <maus...@chapman.edu>; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by duncan-kennedydhcp146.chapman.edu (Postfix, from userid 0) id F02A21CF900; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:00:00 -0700 (PDT) To: maus...@chapman.edu Subject: Alert duncan-kennedydhcp146.chapman.edu updates available! Message-Id: <20090520230000.f02a21cf...@duncan-kennedydhcp146.chapman.edu> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 16:00:00 -0700 (PDT) From: kennedydhcp...@chapman.edu (root) X-Chapman-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Chapman-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Chapman-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Chapman-MailScanner-From: kennedydhcp...@chapman.edu X-Spam-Status: No
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * base: repos.lax-noc.com * updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu * addons: ftp.osuosl.org * extras: repos.lax-noc.com acpid.i386 1.0.4-7.el5_3.1 updates ntp.i386 4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.2 updates ____________________________ Matt Ausmus Network Administrator Chapman University 635 West Palm Street Orange, CA 92868 (714)628-2738 maus...@chapman.edu "You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something." -HARTLEY'S FIRST LAW -----Original Message----- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:00 PM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Sender address rewrite Ausmus, Matt: > Hello all, > > This is my first post. > > I'm using postfix 2.3.3 on some Centos 5.x boxes strictly to send mail > for alerting purposes. I've got relaying setup to go to our main smtp > server which is running FreeBSD 6.x and postfix. What I'm trying to do > is for the outgoing messages to show the hostn...@chapman.edu so I can > look at the incoming message and know what box the alert is coming from. > The scripts I'm using are utilizing mailx to send the messages. > > I setup sender_canonical and the address rewriting is working properly. > The problem that I'm having is that the mail is displayed in my mail > client as just root. When I open the message it shows: > > Root [hostn...@chapman.edu] or "root" <hostn...@chapman.edu> > > Depending on the client. I checked the header of the message and it > shows (this is an excerpt: From: kennedydhcp...@chapman.edu (root)). > What I want to do is get rid of "Root[...]" and just have the rewritten > email address displayed in the mailbox list. > > How can I accomplish this? You need to show what is in the email file itself, not what the mail client is showing you. Wietse