setting the From: email address

[Kyle O'Donnell]

i use sendmail -f

printf "%" "To: for\n Subject: bar\n this is an alert" |sendmail -f
nagiosadmin $contactemail$

On 3/23/07, Morris, Patrick <patrick.morris at hp.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> > Of Robin Mordasiewicz
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:07 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] setting the From: email address
> >
> > What are people doing in order to set the From: email address
> > that notifications appear to come from.
> >
> > When using mail the email notifications appear to come from
> > the username at host which nagios runs.
>
> In my case, I've configured my mailer so that the From address is
> masqueraded when the Nagios account sends mail.
>
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