[TriLUG] Setting up roots email address?

[jason at cerient.net]

there is a line near the bottom of /etc/postfix/aliases that does this
very thing.  change it to the user you want and run 'postalias
/etc/postfix/aliases'

that'll do ya

> I started running Postfix at home and would like to know how you
> associate a email address with root or another system user.
>
> When I execate a cmd like:
>      cat afile | mail -s "My eml subj" recipent at domain.com
>
> The email arrives fine but appears to be from "root"
> <root at localhost.localdomain>
>
> How would I change this system wide to a real name and email address?
>
> -bp
>
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