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

[Harold J. Ballinger]

I'm used to using postfix, but the appliance came pre-configured with exim4, so it seemed easier to just find the config setting than to rebuild and install postfix instead - it isn't as much being lazy as it is trying to stay on top of all of the other projects that are driven by other departments while squeezing in some of our IT projects/fixes :-)



 
Harold J. Ballinger, MCSE, MCNE
IT Coordinator
Heritage Healthcare, Inc.
536 Old Howell Rd, Greenville SC 29615
(888) 335-2620 | helpdesk
(864) 244-3626 | office
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-----Original Message-----
From: J Sloan [mailto:joe at tmsusa.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 1:45 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I change the "mail from" for email alerts?

Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
> The exim list introduced me to a "qualify_domain" setting and I was able to force it that way. Thanks so much for your help.
>   
It's great that you finally got it working - but in retrospect, setting
the from address is really the job of the mail application (MUA) which
the MTA should simply pass along if it's sane.

For future reference, mailx and postfix work "out of the box" for this
sort of thing - no special hacks, MTA tweaks or secret settings required.

Joe


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