Thanks, but that did not work either: # hostname dev # hostname -f dev.example.com
/etc/hosts: 162.243.46.210 dev.example.com dev [...] main.cf : myorigin = example.com mydomain = example.com myhostname = dev.example.com [...] e-mail arrives from r...@dev.example.com (I even rebooted before sending the e-mail) Gabor On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Marius Gologan <marius.golo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try, > > mydomain = example.com > postfix reload > > Marius. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Gabor Szabo > Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 2:12 PM > To: postfix-us...@cloud9.net > Subject: Setting the domain name of outgoing e-mail > > hi, > > I have just set up an Ubuntu 14.04 and installed postfix using aptitude > install postfix. > When I send an e-mail (as root) to a gmail account it arrives from > root@localhost > > I tried to configure it to send as r...@example.com but the only way I > managed to make it work isn't really right. In /etc/postfix/main.cf I had > > myorigin = /etc/mailname > and /etc/mailname had example.com in it but that did not help. > I tried setting > myorigin = example.com > and tried > > myorigin = $mydomain > > but I still got the mail from root@localhost. > > The only way I could convince it to send from r...@example.com was to add > > 162.243.46.210 example.com > > to the /etc/hosts file. This is not really acceptable as example.com should > resolve to another IP address and not to this machine. > > Am I doing something incorrectly? > How could I convince postfix to use the content of mydomain as the domain > name when sending e-mail? > > regards > Gabor >
