On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 01:18 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > LogWatch is emailing me from root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and this seems > to causing problems with the spam filter of the email address I'm > sending it to. How can I change this to something more acceptable? > What is the result of hostname? on my box - [mirror@utility ~]$ hostname utility.mpeters.local [mirror@utility ~]$ grep "utility" /etc/hosts 192.168.15.2 utility.mpeters.local utility [mirror@utility ~]$ make sure that HOSTNAME is set in /etc/sysconfig/network It would be a good idea to have your hostname specified in /etc/hosts I also have mine specified in my caching nameserver, but that isn't necessary if it is in your /etc/hosts file - because your /etc/hosts file will be consulted first. If that is not possible (ie dhcp) just having the hostaname set in /etc/sysconfig/network might be good enough. At any rate - my logwatch stuff on that box comes from root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In my spamassassin config for user who gets roots mail - I have (in .spamassassin/user_prefs ) whitelist_from *.mpeters.local (that account gets all logs from all my systems) SpamAssassin knows to not flag them as spam. They actually never even get to SpamAssassin because procmail filters them first, but any mail on my lan system that doesn't get filtered for whatever reason would never be flagged as spam because of the whitelist.
