Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:55:27 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: glarkin@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts Message-ID: <48B6AE4F.3050903@witchspace.com> In-Reply-To: <48B671B4.9070602@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <48A00C8C.4060105@witchspace.com> <48A05902.8060103@FreeBSD.org> <48B66D15.5080104@witchspace.com> <48B671B4.9070602@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jonathan Belson wrote: > | | OK, thanks. After playing with MASQUERADE_AS(), MASQUERADE_DOMAIN() > | plus a few FEATURES(), I've managed to change the 'From:' address for > | e-mails sent via the command line. Unfortunately, e-mails sent via > the | cron-ed periodic scripts still don't get through, although if I > run e.g. | 'periodic daily' from the command line, the mail does reach me. > | | The only difference I can think of is that cron runs the scripts as > | root. Could this cause the difference? > > Yes. root is specifically exempted from all the masquerading stuff. > There's an EXPOSED_USER macro you can use in $(hostname).mc to control > that. Ah, that explains it. There doesn't seem to be a way to remove exposed users, but there is a web page explaining how to stop 'root' being added as a default exposed user: http://www.grok.org.uk/docs/smroot.html Instead of doing this, I've told periodic.conf to send its output to my local account on the server, and added a .forward file to pass the e-mail to my 'real' address. Hopefully this will play nicely with sendmail's masquerading. Cheers, --Jon
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