It's very easy to override what mail program gets used, in the configuration. It's a variable. Set it to a script that does what you want.
We've used this approach for many years to fix the problem of binary content in the emails (which was addressed in a recent update).
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-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 04:59 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] configurable sender email address for alerts?
Den 16.01.2014 18:56, Mark Felder skrev:
I have a FreeBSD bug report open from a user who claims that if they run "sudo service xymon-server start" it starts xymon correctly but the alert emails come from the wrong email address. Where is Xymon getting the username from to use when sending emails? Is it configurable in xymonserver.cfg? Could it be made configurable? The patch the user suggested to the freebsd rc script seems unnecessary.
Xymon just runs the "mail" or "mailx" commandline tool. How that determines what to put as the sender, I don't know.
My guess is that mail uses "From: $USER" as the sender, but it also depends on the MTA setup (sendmail, postfix) of the host where you are running Xymon - e.g. the MTA typically adds the domainname to the sender-address.
Regards, Henrik
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