[Xymon] Changing sender of alert emails?

Tue May 22 22:18:12 CEST 2012

So change the userid that runs xymon. /etc/passwd and shadow.

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Skadberg
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:48 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Changing sender of alert emails?

Ok, I guess I didn't make what I wanted very obvious :)

The domain isn't the part I want to change, I want to change the user it's sending as :)

So, I would like to have

xymon at mydomain.com<mailto:xymon at mydomain.com> for the Internal system

and

xymonext at mydomain.com<mailto:xymonext at mydomain.com> for the external system.

I guess right now it's just using the user who runs the xymon processes, but was hoping this was something configurable, so I could make the different instances send as different users (so then I could set up replies to go to the correct host)

Skadz

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
I guess for postfix it looks like it would be myorigin. Which is either mydomain or myhostname. In your case, you'd want the myhostname.

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Root, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:38 AM
To: 'Ryan Skadberg'; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Changing sender of alert emails?

Shouldn't this be the mail agent not the xymon server?

In sendmail, that would be Dj. In postfix, mydomain(?) or myhostname.

Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Skadberg
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 3:52 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] Changing sender of alert emails?

Hi Folks -

  I have 2 instances of Xymon running (one internal to my network and one external).  We have decided we want to set up the ability to ack over email.  This is very easily set up (already did it on the internal version), except for one small detail, email from BOTH comes from xymon at mydomain.com<mailto:xymon at mydomain.com>.  This means that replying to this address can only go to one or both.  Both kind of stinks, as it means one system will be getting bad ack's all the time (and then xymond will go yellow).  I'd like to set the email sender on the external instance to something different, but can't seem to find it anywhere in any of the configs.  I looked through alerts.cfg and the man page and nothing stood out to me.

Is this possible?

Thanks!
Skadz

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