Changing Notification "from" address

[derekb]

Howdy,
Just glancing over this article I found online:
http://serverfault.com/questions/73004/ ... mails-from

Has anyone had any success doing this? I have a requirement to change the "From" address for notifications for certain sites to get them into a CRM properly.

I've tried a few things so far by trying to run the commands manually from CLI:

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/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" [email protected] -- -r "[email protected]"
/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" [email protected] -- -r [email protected]
/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" [email protected] -- [email protected]

Pretty much everything in the link above I have tried, and the 'mail' command just seems to hang. I don't see anything in /var/log/maillog.

Any ideas?

[mcapra]

Does changing the "Send Mail From" field under your mail settings not produce the desired result?

2016_08_30_15_05_14_Nagios_XI_Administration.png

If so, could you explain in greater depth what the desired result is?

[derekb]

Does changing the "Send Mail From" field under your mail settings not produce the desired result?

2016_08_30_15_05_14_Nagios_XI_Administration.png

If so, could you explain in greater depth what the desired result is?

I don't want to use a "system wide" FROM address. I'm trying to create a new command for sending notifications via email to change the default FROM address to something specific for certain hosts/services

[mcapra]

Ah, I understand.

It's worth mentioning using the various Nagios XI macros in the CLI isn't going to work. The macros don't have meaning outside of Nagios XI.

If I run the following from the CLI:

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[root@localhost etc]# /usr/bin/printf "%b" "this is a test email" | /bin/mail -s "** TEST ALERT **" [email protected]

I get the following in my inbox (ignore the spam tagging):

2016_08_30_15_25_30_TEST_ALERT_myemail_gmail.com_Gmail.png

So lets say [email protected] isn't ideal and I want to change the "from" address as you are trying to do. From the CLI I give this a shot:

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[root@localhost etc]# /usr/bin/printf "%b" "this is a test email" | /bin/mail -r [email protected] -s "** TEST ALERT **" [email protected]

I get the following in my inbox:

2016_08_30_15_30_59_TEST_ALERT_myemail_gmail.com_Gmail.png

So I think a well placed -r argument should do the trick.

[derekb]

You win the prize!! Thank you!!

[mcapra]

Sure thing! Is it alright if we lock this thread and mark the issue as resolved?

[derekb]

Sure thing! Is it alright if we lock this thread and mark the issue as resolved?

Yep! Thanks again !!