Sender in mail -s command

Andreas Wahlert andreas.wahlert at gmx.de
Thu Jul 21 09:32:43 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 10:03 +0200, Andreas Wahlert wrote:
> 
>>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??
> 
> 
> # yum install sendmail-cf
> 
> Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change:
> 
> dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com')dnl
> 
> to:
> 
> MASQUERADE_AS(`work.de')dnl
> 
> If you want to be able to rewrite "nagios" as "boom", you should also
> add:
> 
> FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
> 
> just below the existing line:
> 
> FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
> 
> Then create a file /etc/mail/genericstable containing the line:
> 
> nagios		boom at work.de
> 
> Then run "make -C /etc/mail; service sendmail reload"
> 
> I think that should do what you want.
> 
> Paul.


wow,



now it works.

sendmail is really tricky. i have found a nice howto to switch to 
postfix. I guess it's better for me, to have a postfix on this machine.
There i'm understanding what i'm doing :-))



thx and kind regards




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