server name appears on email

[steves]

I'm sending a sample email from root to user steves

[root@m1 mail]# echo 123 |mail -s 123 steves@metrofire.com.au

When I look in Outlook the email comes from
root@m1.metrofire.com.au

Why does "m1" (server name) appears in the email? I run Mailscanner.
I added m1.metrofire.com.au to /etc/mail/local-host-names but it hasn't made any differences.

[ScalixSupport]

Root is a specific user that is not masqueraded.

You need to edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and change the line

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C{E}root

and restart sendmail.

Cheers

Dave

[steves]

So remove "root" from that line, you are saying?

The second line in sendmail.cf has "localhost.localdomain" is that correct?


C{E}root
C{w}localhost.localdomain

Thanks

[ScalixSupport]

You can remove that line.

Cheers,

Sascha.