mail confusion

[Jay Moore]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 22:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:20, Jay Moore wrote:
> > > 
> > > That would be true if the mail were being submitted from "root".  If the
> > > submission is from "root at localhost.localdomain" then the bare minimum
> > > requirement would be masquerading (without "root" as an EXPOSED_USER)
> > > to map that to "root at something.else".  Without knowing exactly how the
> > > mail is being submitted there's no way to know whether that would work.
> > 
> > The mail is being submitted by 'smartd', the smartmontools daemon...
> > according to the docs, they use 'mail' (don't know why). Since smartd
> > runs (at least starts) as root, I guess the message *is* being submitted
> > from root. 
> 
> Smartd has an option to invoke your own mail program.  If you
> don't want to fix things in the mail transport you can
> send the output to a script or program that adds your
> choice of a 'From: address' before sending.

That would be fine with me... do you have any suggestions for an
alternative mail program?

Thanks,
Jay