Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email
> to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requires that
> "From" in the header matches the account email.
> Cron on my system insists to send email (as e.g. produced by a logcheck cron
> job) using "From" as derived from the user the executed script runs under
> ("logcheck", in this case) and the provider accordingly refuses the email.
>
> Googling leeds to the conclusion, that while cron on debian (stable) is
> accepting "MAILTO" in crontab, it doesn't accept "MAILFROM", which other
> distributions (Centos?) seem to have ...
>
> Can anyone propose an elegant way to solve this issue?
This looks more promising than my other previous suggestions.
http://raspberry.znix.com/2013/03/nullmailer-on-raspberry-pi.html
esp.
/etc/nullmailer/helohost
"You only need this file if you are relaying through an smtp smarthost
that won't accept your default domain as a valid mail server. By
default, nullmailer uses the value from /etc/mailname for the HELO
message in the smtp protocol. Any domain set in this file will be used
in the HELO message instead."
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