[hobbit] How do I change the "mail from" for email alerts?

Harold J. Ballinger wrote:

My mail command does not support the –r option. I cannot see a way to force the from address, so I guess it is running it as the hobbit user. I have configured the hobbit user in /etc/email-addresses as “hobbit: monitor at mydomain.com <mailto:monitor at mydomain.com>” but Exim4 doesn’t seem to be using this. It definitely looks like it is something I will have to take up with the Exim4 group since now I can see the command that hobbit is using and that it isn’t the one forcing “hobbit@” as the wrong address.

This should be simple to fix - perhaps on your system the proper command is called "mailx" instead of "mail" - I gather it's some sort of unix OS but exactly what flavor and version are you running there?

Joe