I've just installed Postfix to evaluate it as a replacement for qmail.
I'm having a slight problem which someone might be able to with.

I manage servers at several sites and they all send script-generated
logging and status information via e-mail to an Exchange server. All
the qmail-powered sites email has a display name of 'root@domain.tld'
whereas the mails via Postfix simply come from 'root'. Since these
mails are ordered and searched by display name to show which company
they come from, this could be a problem.

Anyone know how I can make the display name appear as root@domain.tld.
This behaviour occurs using several mail clients (command-line mail,
mutt and Perl mail)

Thanks in advance

Dave

bordersquirrel@gmail.com wrote:
> I've just installed Postfix to evaluate it as a replacement for qmail.
> I'm having a slight problem which someone might be able to with.
>
> I manage servers at several sites and they all send script-generated
> logging and status information via e-mail to an Exchange server. All
> the qmail-powered sites email has a display name of 'root@domain.tld'
> whereas the mails via Postfix simply come from 'root'. Since these
> mails are ordered and searched by display name to show which company
> they come from, this could be a problem.
>
> Anyone know how I can make the display name appear as root@domain.tld.
> This behaviour occurs using several mail clients (command-line mail,
> mutt and Perl mail)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dave

Run these commands on the remote Postfix machines:

postconf append_at_myorigin
postconf append_dot_mydomain

If they both say "yes", and the homemade sending scripts hand off to Postfix's
version of "sendmail", then the local domain name should be appended whenever it's missing.

Reference: man 5 postconf

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Greg