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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: from address of cron emails
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Siklos" <>
To: <cygwin>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: 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".

Thanks. What does your SMTP server object to:
- the format with the ( ) ?
- the fact that root is not a Windows user ?
- the fact that there is no domain?

Pierre


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