Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

[Greg Larkin]

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Jonathan Belson wrote:
| Hiya
|
| I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly.  It
| has now
| stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the
| status
| e-mails is of the form 'root at mybox.local' and the ISP has upped its
| anti-spam
| checks.
|
| I see /usr/sbin/periodic itself uses the 'mail' command to send the
| mails, but I
| couldn't see a command line option to specify a 'From:'.  I guess 'mail'
| uses
| 'sendmail' to send e-mail; is there a simple way of forcing a 'From:'
| address
| via 'sendmail' config?
|
| Cheers,
|
| --Jon
|

Hi Jon,

Have a look at this: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html and
perhaps this, too: http://www.madboa.com/geek/sendmail-genericstable/

You can rewrite root at mybox.local to appear as though it's coming from a
real email address by using the techniques on those pages.

Please post back here if you run into any trouble!

Best regards,
Greg
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Greg Larkin
http://www.sourcehosting.net/
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