On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 22:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:20, Jay Moore wrote: > > > > > > That would be true if the mail were being submitted from "root". If the > > > submission is from "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" then the bare minimum > > > requirement would be masquerading (without "root" as an EXPOSED_USER) > > > to map that to "root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Without knowing exactly how the > > > mail is being submitted there's no way to know whether that would work. > > > > The mail is being submitted by 'smartd', the smartmontools daemon... > > according to the docs, they use 'mail' (don't know why). Since smartd > > runs (at least starts) as root, I guess the message *is* being submitted > > from root. > > Smartd has an option to invoke your own mail program. If you > don't want to fix things in the mail transport you can > send the output to a script or program that adds your > choice of a 'From: address' before sending. That would be fine with me... do you have any suggestions for an alternative mail program? Thanks, Jay
