Change email alert return address

sgiles

Is there a way to change the return address on email alerts from STOR2RRD? Our alerting system requires a specific return address. 

Pavel

Hi,

it is hardcoded, you can change it here:
bin/AlertStor2rrd.pm lines 1691 and 140
  my $mailfrom = "stor2rrd";


Bad thing is that you have to do it again after next upgrade.
We will think about parametrisation for the future ...

sgiles

Thank you.

sgiles

Looks like there is a hard coded email from "lpar2rrd" somewhere. On hardware failures I am getting a "rejected" email from this from address. Where might this be in the code?
Thanks,

Pavel

if you use the latest code 2.01 then there is definitelly user stor2rrd for HW alerting:

bin/Xorux_lib.pm line 211
  my $mailfrom = "stor2rrd";

sgiles

Running the latest code 2.01, and that location "mailfrom" was changed. But receiving hardware errors  "from": "lpar2rrd@xxx.com" in my alert system. 

sgiles

Found a solution to my issue, so thought I would share. Used postfix to resolve. 

Added the following to last line of /etc/postfix/main.cf file
smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic

Added the following to the last line of /etc/postfix/generic
lpar2rrd user@fqdn
stor2rrd user@fqdn

Ran
postmap /etc/postfix/generic

Restarted postfix
service postfix restart

With this I still needed to change the mailfrom in AlertStor2rrd.pm and Xorux_lib.pm files, but it is now sending from the address I needed.

Pavel

ok, I tested actual solution and sendmail ignores "from:" item and places there actuall Unix user name.

how did you change mailfrom variable in AlertStor2rrd.pm and Xorux_lib.pm?

sgiles

I changed the mailfrom variable in the code as per your instructions above.