Root user sending emails

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colbyhart
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Root user sending emails

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The emails I receive from Nagios are from Root User. Is there any way to change this?
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Re: Root user sending emails

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What do you have as the "Send Mail From" address in

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Admin -> Manage Email Settings
Also, do you have the hostname set on your server to something other than localhost or localhost.localdomain?

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hostname
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Re: Root user sending emails

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send from = Nagios XI
System name localhost
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Re: Root user sending emails

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the "send from" should be a full email address.

Also, you should set your hostname to be the actual machine name in /etc/sysconfig/network , such as

nagiosxi.yourdomain.com
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Re: Root user sending emails

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Resolved thanks
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