Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:17:09 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts Message-ID: <48B66D15.5080104@witchspace.com> In-Reply-To: <48A05902.8060103@FreeBSD.org> References: <48A00C8C.4060105@witchspace.com> <48A05902.8060103@FreeBSD.org>
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Greg Larkin wrote: > 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@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? > | > 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@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! 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? Cheers, --Jon
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