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

["Harold J. Ballinger" <hballinger (at) heritage-healthcare.com>]

My mail command does not support the âr 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 âhobbit: monitor (at) mydomain.com<mailto:monitor (at) mydomain.com>â but Exim4 doesnât 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 isnât the one forcing âhobbit (at) â as the wrong address.

Results from âmail -râ:

hhcgvl-moni03:~# mail -r
mail: invalid option -- r
usage: mail [-eIinv] [-a header] [-b bcc-addr] [-c cc-addr] [-s subject]
            to-addr [...] [-- sendmail-options [...]]
       mail [-eIiNnv] -f [name]
       mail [-eIiNnv] [-u user]
hhcgvl-moni03:~#

Thanks for the help guys, Iâll take this over to the Exim4 mailing list now :-)


From: J Sloan [mailto:joe (at) tmsusa.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:16 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I change the "mail from" for email alerts?

Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
My /var/spool/exim4/msglog is filling up with messages similar to the following:

2009-06-04 12:26:17 Received from hobbit@ U=hobbit P=local S=929
2009-06-04 12:26:33 it (at) mydomain.com<mailto:it (at) mydomain.com> <IT (at) mydomain.com><mailto: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)

I have reconfigured Exim4 to allow remote mail, but I canât find a way to make the email alerts from hobbit/xymon use a different âMAIL FROMâ than âhobbit (at) â, which our Exchange server knows is not a valid address.

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 âhobbit: hobbit (at) mydomain.com<mailto:hobbit (at) mydomain.com>â in /etc/email-addresses

Iâm not a *nix guru by any means, and Iâm sure this is something simple that Iâm missing?


Did you adjust the relevant section of ~/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg to suit your needs?

# For the hobbitd_alert module
MAILC="mail -r xymon (at) mydomain.com<mailto:xymon (at) mydomain.com>"      # Command to send an e-mail with no subject
MAIL="$MAILC -r xymon (at) domain.com<mailto:xymon (at) domain.com> -s"    # Command to send an e-mail with a subject


Joe