How do I change the address the mail is sent from for email notifications?

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2009/9/8 Janet Sullivan <jsullivan at mndigital.com>
>
> Not all versions of mailx support -R (FreeBSD's, for example).  Instead, you can set the REPLYTO environment variable.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menard, Chris [mailto:Chris.Menard at Aspect.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 5:27 AM
> To: Esteban Torres Rodriguez; nagios-user Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How do I change the address the mail is sent from for email notifications?
>
> if using mailx, the -R parm sets the 'return' address.
>
> echo "message" | mailx -s subject -R nagios_from_address at nagios_server to_address at domain.com
> ________________________________________
> From: Esteban Torres Rodriguez [etorres at dap.es]
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 2:56 AM
> To: nagios-user Mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] How do I change the address the mail is sent from       for email notifications?
>
> I'm trying to do this but I do not work.
>
> http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase/faqs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&catid=35&faq_id=338&expand=false&showdesc=true
>
> Does anyone help me?
> I've tried to do with mailx but does not work either.
>
The way I did it was to change the name that Nagios runs under.
IIRC, it needs to be done in the password and group files, the init
script and in the nagios.cfg script.
Then remember to chfn and set the full name.
I changed my username from nagios to support and it seems to work well.

-Andy

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