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Stephan_87795
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Sep 23, 2008

sender address in eMails sent by postfix

Hello all,

 

 

I am trying to use postfix-settings (/etc/postfix/) for sending mails from the bigIP directly to my account.

 

By default the sender address is like "root@mydomain.tld", so it always takes "root" as the user account. Unfortunately, I can't use "root" within our SMTP-environment, therefore it would be quite valuable for me being able to change the sender's user account to something like "LTM1@mydomain.tld".

 

Does anyone know where to change this exactly? I was trying to do this in /etc/postfix/aliases, but did not get to a satisfying result so far...:-(

 

Thanks for any good ideas.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Stephan
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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Mar 30, 2010
    Well... You could use a regex rule on the body to kickoff a different canonical mapping.

     

     

    H
  • luciano_55922's avatar
    luciano_55922
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    Aug 12, 2011
    Hello

     

     

    People.

     

     

    which step by step for me to configure the BigIP to send email on failure of the pool, ask the site I'm not getting set.
  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Aug 16, 2011
    Hi Luciano,

     

     

    Here's a good article to start with:

     

     

    sol3667: Configuring alerts to send email notifications

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/600/sol3667.html

     

     

    Aaron
  • kridsana's avatar
    kridsana
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    Jul 03, 2013
    Hi Hoolio

     

     

    From sol3667 .. If i changed fromaddress="root" into fromaddress="gtm01"

     

     

    when email sent >> Does sender will change into From: gtm01@hostname.com ?

     

     

    Thank you
  • kridsana's avatar
    kridsana
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    Jul 03, 2013
    Hi Hoolio

     

     

    From sol3667 .. If i changed fromaddress="root" into fromaddress="gtm01"

     

     

    when email sent >> Does sender will change into From: gtm01@hostname.com ?

     

     

    Thank you
  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Jul 03, 2013

    Yes, I believe that should work. If not, can you just put the full from address you'd like used?

     

     

    Aaron

     

  • Stefan_Klotz's avatar
    Stefan_Klotz
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    Jan 05, 2015

    I just want to say thank you (especially Stephan and Jason) for this very old topic. It helped me a lot to get email alerting on custom user alerts working again. Settings got lost during software update and were not documented :(

     

    Ciao Stefan :)

     

  • lilli_144452's avatar
    lilli_144452
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    Feb 03, 2015

    Hi,

     

    I'm with the same problem, see configurations applied below:

     

    [ltm01:Active] ~ newaliases [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic" >> /etc/postfix/main.cf [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "root@localhost myname@mydomain.com" > /etc/postfix/generic [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "root@myname@mydomain.com myname@mydomain.com" > /etc/postfix/generic [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic" >> /etc/postfix/main.cf [ltm01:Active] ~ postmap /etc/postfix/generic [ltm01:Active] ~ bigstart restart postfix

     

    Am i missing something?

     

    Regards

     

    • lilli_144452's avatar
      lilli_144452
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      Feb 03, 2015
      [ltm01:Active] ~ newaliases [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic" >> /etc/postfix/main.cf [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "root@localhost myname@mydomain.com" > /etc/postfix/generic [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "root@myname@mydomain.com myname@mydomain.com" > /etc/postfix/generic [ltm01:Active] ~ echo "sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic" >> /etc/postfix/main.cf [ltm01:Active] ~ postmap /etc/postfix/generic [ltm01:Active] ~ bigstart restart postfix