Sender in mail -s command

Andreas Wahlert andreas.wahlert at gmx.de
Thu Jul 21 08:03:52 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:35 +0200, Andreas Wahlert wrote:
> 
>>i have script which sends e-mail to me. How can i specify a complete 
>>sender address like "boom at work.de"?? i see in my mailclient only senders
>>such "nagios at localhost.localdomain". On my host ist FC3 installed "out 
>>of the box"
> 
> 
> Do you want *all* mail originating from scripts on this machine to have
> a "work.de" address, or just mail originating from nagios?
> 
> Does this mail need to be sent over the Internet? If so, you will need a
> valid envelope sender domain instead of localhost.localdomain. What type
> of Internet connection do you have (dialup, always-on, static/dynamic?).
> 
> The configuration is best done in sendmail, which will then work for all
> programs, not just "mail".
> 
> Paul.


It's only a host for Monitoring. There runs "Fujitsu ServerView" and 
"nagios" That means "work.de" is enough for all. The script send only 
notifications mail to my internal mailserver.


Where can i do this configuration in sendmail??



kind regards from germany



Andreas




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