topic Re: Sendmail doubt in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail doubt

Rafael Mendonça Braga — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:44:30 GMT

Hello experts!!
Using HP-UX 11i.

I did a script to send me an e-mail everynight reporting the status of the filesystem of our servers here in the company... This way, I can know how much they are growing day by day.
I'm using mailx to send these e-mails...

Some of the servers send me the mail as "root@company.com" in the "From" field only and some send as "Administrator [root@company.com]" ... How can i set the others to e-mail me with the "Administrator" in the field from?

Thanks,

Rafael M. Braga

Re: Sendmail doubt

Pete Randall — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:51:05 GMT

See the " Rewriting the From Line on Outgoing Mail" section in this manual:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-0707/ch02s03.html

Pete

Re: Sendmail doubt

David Child_1 — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:59:56 GMT

Try changing root's gecos field in /etc/passwd to 'Administrator'.

i.e.

root:*************:0:3:Administrator:/root:/sbin/sh

Check the servers that 'work' and you will probably find them set up that way.

David

Re: Sendmail doubt

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:04:34 GMT

#run_your_script | mailx -r admin@admin.com you@youraddress.com

-r changes the reply-to [from] field. Substitute the appropriate address.

You'll get an authentication warning like
X-Authentication-Warning: you.you.com: joe set sender to fred@fred.com using -r
if you're not a "Trusted User" from sendmail's perspective. root is generally Trusted.

Re: Sendmail doubt

Rafael Mendonça Braga — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:10:18 GMT

Thanks everybody!!

I used David suggestion!!

Thanks a lot!