Hi, On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 1:06 PM Marvin Renich <[email protected]> wrote: > > create a default From address that is useful when root's mail is being > forwarded off the current system
We just released 4.2-2 in order to address this issue in part. Hoping to improve the default MAILFROM value for all users we merely added the host name for now. That value was readily available in upstream's code. The patch has a better chance of being accepted upstream. The /etc/mailname mechanism is specific to Debian. A later release of mdadm in Debian may bring the MAILFROM value into compliance with Debian mail customs. I tried to test the change but my local mail server replaces all From addresses with meaningful values. (It was my fix for the reporter's issue.) Please let us know if this patch does not work as expected. Salsa is currently down. The patch is instead attached for your review. Kind regards Felix Lechner
Description: Add host name to default MAILFROM The host on which the error occurred is mentioned in the subject and also in the message body, but some may find it useful in the From address, as well. Author: Felix Lechner <[email protected]> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1006464 Forwarded: no --- This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ --- a/Monitor.c +++ b/Monitor.c @@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ static void alert(char *event, char *dev if (info->mailfrom) fprintf(mp, "From: %s\n", info->mailfrom); else - fprintf(mp, "From: %s monitoring <root>\n", - Name); + fprintf(mp, "From: %s monitoring <root@%s>\n", + Name, hname); fprintf(mp, "To: %s\n", info->mailaddr); fprintf(mp, "Subject: %s event on %s:%s\n\n", event, dev, hname);
