On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Chip Burke wrote: > Is there a way to statically set the from address in notifications? Our > notifications are all being generated as nag...@localhost which causes them > to be blocked by various spam filters.
This is a configuration problem with your mailer daemon; it sounds like you haven't properly configured it to be Internet friendly. How you fix it depends on what MTA (postfix, sendmail, exim, etc) you're using on the Nagios machine and is pretty much outside the scope of this list. All accounts on the machine will have this problem, not just the nagios account. http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase/faqs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&catid=35&faq_id=338 If you just want to fix it for your nagios user, there are several options that may work for you. Google result you may find useful (several ways discussed) -- http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1286 -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
