nagios email notifications "From" address

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Evgeny N.Stepanov <enst at mail.ru> said:
> Used nagios for monitoring my network for couple of years for now. And
> never bothered to receive notifications emails from "www-data" user
> (which nagios is running under). And now i found out that there is no
> place for setting up some fancy name like "Monitor Server" or
> whatever. Is there any config option for that? There is admin_email in
> main config file, but it's not what i want. Also tried to use
> /bin/mail option of adding headers to mail message, it even works, but
> it's not the right way i think. Gotta be some other way. Anybody
> knows?

Well, that's the only way to do it (adjust the notify-by-email
commands).  Instead of using /bin/mail, I'm using /usr/sbin/sendmail;
the printf part includes the correct headers.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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