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Re: from address of cron emails


----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
To: "Rob Siklos" <rrr@siklos.ca>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: from address of cron emails




----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Siklos" <>
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:02 AM
Subject: from address of cron emails



| Hi,
|
| I'm running cron through cygwin, using ssmtp.exe as the sendmail
| replacement. It seems that none of cron's e-mails are getting through,
| because my SMTP server rejects "root (Cron Daemon)" as a valid From address
| in the outgoing e-mail.
|
| Is there any way of changing this?


Interesting. You are the first to mention this, so there is probably a way.
Have you tried running ssmtp-config and setting FromLineOverride and/or
rewriteDomain?
FYI ssmtp is called with the following command line:
"-FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t". I think ssmtp ignores all of them except possibly -F
Still FYI, exim with the default conf file rewrites to
From: root@the.local.domain (Cron Daemon)


If you find a solution, please let us know.

Pierre

Hi Pierre,


My solution was to make /usr/sbin/sendmail look like this:

#!/bin/sh
ARGS=$@
sed -r -e 's/^From: root \(Cron Daemon\)\s*$/From: Administrator@mydomain.com/' | /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe $@


It's a total hack, but it works.

I have FromLineOverride set to Yes, but I need it to be this way, so I didn't try changing it. My SMTP server is a local IIS SMTP server - it doesn't appear to rewrite the domain the way exim might. BTW, ssmtp doesn't ignore "-t" or "-oi".


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