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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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: <a href="mailto:monitor@mydomain.com">monitor@mydomain.com</a>”
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Results from “mail -r”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>hhcgvl-moni03:~# mail -r<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>mail: invalid option -- r<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>usage: mail [-eIinv] [-a header]
[-b bcc-addr] [-c cc-addr] [-s subject]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> to-addr [...] [--
sendmail-options [...]]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> mail [-eIiNnv] -f [name]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> mail [-eIiNnv] [-u user]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>hhcgvl-moni03:~#<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the help guys, I’ll
take this over to the Exim4 mailing list now :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> J Sloan [mailto:joe@tmsusa.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit] How do I change the "mail from" for
email alerts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Harold J. Ballinger wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>My
/var/spool/exim4/msglog is filling up with messages similar to the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>2009-06-04
12:26:17 Received from hobbit@ U=hobbit P=local S=929</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>2009-06-04
12:26:33 <a href="mailto:it@mydomain.com">it@mydomain.com</a> <a
href="mailto:IT@mydomain.com"><IT@mydomain.com></a> R=dnslookup
T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<hobbit@>
SIZE=1973: host exchange.mydomain [10.10.10.21]: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Process
failed (1) when writing error message to hobbit@ (frozen)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have reconfigured Exim4 to allow remote mail, but I can’t
find a way to make the email alerts from hobbit/xymon use a different “MAIL
FROM” than “hobbit@”, which our Exchange server knows is not a valid address.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have tried making sure that the hostname is defined in the
bbserver config and that the domain is configured in resolv.conf. I also tried
creating an entry for “hobbit: <a href="mailto:hobbit@mydomain.com">hobbit@mydomain.com</a>”
in /etc/email-addresses<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’m not a *nix guru by any means, and I’m sure this is
something simple that I’m missing?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
Did you adjust the relevant section of ~/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg to suit
your needs?<br>
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</span><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># For the hobbitd_alert module</span></tt><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt>MAILC="mail -r <a href="mailto:xymon@mydomain.com">xymon@mydomain.com</a>"
# Command to send an e-mail with no subject</tt><br>
<tt>MAIL="$MAILC -r <a href="mailto:xymon@domain.com">xymon@domain.com</a>
-s" # Command to send an e-mail with a subject</tt></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>
<br>
<br>
Joe <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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