[Xymon] configurable sender email address for alerts?

[John Thurston]

On 1/16/2014 9:50 AM, John Thurston wrote:
> On 1/16/2014 8:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>> I have a FreeBSD bug report open from a user who claims that if they run
>> "sudo service xymon-server start" it starts xymon correctly but the
>> alert emails come from the wrong email address. Where is Xymon getting
>> the username from to use when sending emails? Is it configurable in
>> xymonserver.cfg? Could it be made configurable? The patch the user
>> suggested to the freebsd rc script seems unnecessary.
>
> I tried setting the value of MAILC in xymonserver.cfg:
>   MAILC="mailx -r noreply at foo.com "
>
> My test with  xymond_alert  report that the -r parameter will be used
> with mailx, but when Xymon actually sends the messages it is not.

Duh. It works perfectly after I restart Xymon.
{sorry for the interruption}
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