I have run into what can only be described as a farce but one that is outside my control and which I need fixed.
I am informed that my cell phone service provider, Bell Canada, will not allow any email messages from a user id 'root' to pass through their email to sms text gateway. Now, I send alerts out from cron and other system monitoring software and these all go out as root@host.domain.tld.
Is there any way to configure the outgoing address to be something else? Or do I have to rename the root user to get around this nonsensical, and utterly useless, restriction imposed by my provider?
On 01/29/2013 04:03 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
I have run into what can only be described as a farce but one that is outside my control and which I need fixed.
I am informed that my cell phone service provider, Bell Canada, will not allow any email messages from a user id 'root' to pass through their email to sms text gateway. Now, I send alerts out from cron and other system monitoring software and these all go out as root@host.domain.tld.
Is there any way to configure the outgoing address to be something else? Or do I have to rename the root user to get around this nonsensical, and utterly useless, restriction imposed by my provider?
vi /etc/aliases
Edit entry at bottom of file:
# Person who should get root's mail #root: marc
Execute newaliases as root or sudo
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:03 PM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
I have run into what can only be described as a farce but one that is outside my control and which I need fixed.
I am informed that my cell phone service provider, Bell Canada, will not allow any email messages from a user id 'root' to pass through their email to sms text gateway. Now, I send alerts out from cron and other system monitoring software and these all go out as root@host.domain.tld.
Is there any way to configure the outgoing address to be something else? Or do I have to rename the root user to get around this nonsensical, and utterly useless, restriction imposed by my provider?
First, are you sure that the @host.domain.tld is really included for root? If you are relying on sendmail's 'MASQUERATE_AS', you have to make sure that you remove root from the EXPOSED_USER default setting.
Otherwise see 'man 5 crontab' for how to set MAILFROM, or if you are mailing in a script, construct the headers yourself and use 'sendmail -t' to use them instead of using the unix user as the sender.
On 01/29/2013 02:03 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
Is there any way to configure the outgoing address to be something else? Or do I have to rename the root user to get around this nonsensical, and utterly useless, restriction imposed by my provider?
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