Re: nullmailer, cron email & email provider requiring appropriate "From" field
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:01:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > Thank you for your consideration,
>
> Does this help:
> http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/logcheck.htm
>
> First hit on google searching for 'logcheck email from'
Oooops, I should have checked that page more carefully, doesn't mention
setting the from.
Might be easier just to install postfix :)
But saw this:
http://opensourcehacker.com/2013/01/02/sendmail-using-nullmailer-and-gmail-account-on-linux-server/
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