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

[J Sloan]

Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
>
> 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: monitor at mydomain.com <mailto:monitor at mydomain.com>” 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.
>

This should be simple to fix - perhaps on your system the proper command
is called "mailx" instead of "mail" - I gather it's some sort of unix OS
but exactly what flavor and version are you running there?

Joe
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