[Xymon] configurable sender email address for alerts?

[John Thurston]

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.

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