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I have a rather simple question but it is giving me a major headache.

First of all all my mail notifications are going out perfectly because I have written a custom script that takes care of outgoing mail.

However, when I create a new user or change someone's password (from Admin->manage users) and I want to send them email to that effect the outgoing email
always gets sent from: root@localhost.{MYDOMAIN}

My question: what process or script sends out this email?

How can I trap this and use my own mail script ?

I believe this is in the file /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/admin/users.php starting around line 1292.

linuxnag wrote:However, when I create a new user or change someone's password (from Admin->manage users) and I want to send them email to that effect the outgoing email always gets sent from: root@localhost.{MYDOMAIN}

On the Admin > System Config > Manage Email Settings page the "Send Mail From" should define this.

That was the first thing I tried. Sorry, no luck.

However, I did catch most of the bad email by changing:

/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php

On the global settings on top. Now, this is NOT what I would call elegant OR smart
but it does work.

-George

linuxnag wrote:That was the first thing I tried. Sorry, no luck.

However, I did catch most of the bad email by changing:

/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php

On the global settings on top. Now, this is NOT what I would call elegant OR smart
but it does work.

-George

Can you show us what you changed? Also, can you show us a screenshot of your Manage Email Settings page? If you're using SMTP, it will send from the user it authenticates as, or has send as permission for.