On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:08, 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? Just stick on the headers you want and feed it to "sendmail -t". Call this mymailer and chmod +x: #!/bin/sh (echo From: myfromaddress@mydomain echo To: mytoaddress@mydomain echo Subject: Something interesting echo cat ) |sendmail -t That should mail anything you pipe to it using the sender address you want. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
