I was able to sort this out now. I had each host sending through a
smart-host for e-mail and thought it was translating the hostname to an
actual resolvable domain name on the internet. However, that was not the
case. I have changed the from address on all hosts to
hostname@resolvablefqdn and now e-mail is working as expected.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Larry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have added it on gist for review.
>
> https://gist.github.com/mrlesmithjr/c8b6f967532d743eeb4b#file-monitrc
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Martin Pala <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Please can you send your monit configuration to [email protected]?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On 02 Oct 2015, at 22:17, Larry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> the only translation going on in my Postfix setup is as below. This works
>> for everything else and has for over a year. But anything is possible I
>> supposed. But even this translation does not match up with what I am seeing.
>>
>> administrator@ansible:~$ cat /etc/postfix/generic
>>
>> @ansible  [email protected]
>>
>> @ansible.everythingshouldbevirtual.local
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Tino Hendricks <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm, then I can only imagine your MTA as a culprit.
>>> Is it possible that some translation takes place?
>>> :-(
>>>
>>> Can you send a mail as the user that monit uses?
>>>
>>>
>>> > Am 02.10.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Larry Smith <[email protected]>:
>>> >
>>> > I have even tried that. The following is what is happening.
>>> > I can either leave default which is
>>> > From: monit@$HOST
>>> >
>>> > or manually set
>>> > From: monit@$HOST
>>> >
>>> > and...
>>> >
>>> > set alert [email protected]
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The email is sent to monit@$HOST
>>> > ex.
>>> > to=<[email protected]>
>>> >
>>> > I can see the same effect if I change...
>>> > From: [email protected]
>>> >
>>> > or set...
>>> > set mail-format { from: [email protected] }
>>> >
>>> > The email is then sent to [email protected]; again using the From:
>>> as the to: as well...
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for the reply!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Tino Hendricks <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Larry,
>>> >
>>> > dunno if I get you right, but if I enter
>>> >
>>> >         set mail-format { from: [email protected] }
>>> >
>>> > mails arrive with headers
>>> >
>>> > Return-Path: <[email protected]>
>>> > …
>>> > From: [email protected]
>>> > ….
>>> >
>>> > What doesn’t work with your setup?
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> >
>>> > Tino
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > > Am 02.10.2015 um 17:45 schrieb Larry Smith <[email protected]>:
>>> > >
>>> > > All,
>>> > > I have just gone through and setup some servers to use monit and
>>> configured the email account correctly for set alert and left the default
>>> email message format as is and any alert that is generated are being sent
>>> to the from address monit@$HOST....Anyone else seen this or know how to
>>> get around it?
>>> > > I am running this on Ubuntu 14.04 servers.
>>> > >
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