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How do I change the "mail from" for email alerts?

list Larry Barber
Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:20:39 -0500
Message-Id: <user-1356a35a607a@xymon.invalid>

You need to configure sendmail so that it will use an account that Exchange
recognizes. See the sendmail man pages.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Harold J. Ballinger <
user-fc4f93976dc8@xymon.invalid> 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 user-d5cf6b2f7d35@xymon.invalid <user-d5cf6b2f7d35@xymon.invalid> 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 can’t find a way to
make the email alerts from hobbit/xymon use a different “MAIL FROM” than
“hobbit@”, 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 “hobbit: user-5c8ec6c92842@xymon.invalid” in
/etc/email-addresses


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