Send email from in nagios

[nagios at mm.quex.org]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Pybe wrote:

> Is there a way to change the from & reply to the notifications come
> from?
> 
> If from a terminal i do:
> 
> mail -s 'subject' -r user at domain.com -R user at domain.com recipient at domain.com
> 
> It works correctly, I have specified the -r & -R in
> /etc/nagois/command.cfg and misccommands.cfg and it shows correctly in
> the web interface commands section but the messages still come from
> daemon at host.domain.com.

Your mail system is probably configured to only allow certain (trusted)
users to override the from/reply addresses.  You should be able to
add the user Nagios run as to the trusted list.

Alternatively, you could find another command-line mail utility (or
write your own) that sends via SMTP.


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