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

[Larry Barber]

You need to configure sendmail so that it will use an account that Exchange
recognizes. See the sendmail man pages.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Harold J. Ballinger <
hballinger at heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:

>  My /var/spool/exim4/msglog is filling up with messages similar to the
> following:
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> 2009-06-04 12:26:17 Received from hobbit@ U=hobbit P=local S=929
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> 2009-06-04 12:26:33 it at mydomain.com <IT at mydomain.com> 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
>
> Process failed (1) when writing error message to hobbit@ (frozen)
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> 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.
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> 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: hobbit at mydomain.com” in
> /etc/email-addresses
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> I’m not a *nix guru by any means, and I’m sure this is something simple
> that I’m missing?
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