Change "mail from" for Icinga notifications

Question

Change the sender for notifications generated from the mail command with Icinga.

Solution

Icinga Configuration

This depends on the mail notification command you’re using. The provided examples for mail-{host,service}-notification provide an additional attribute notification_from which can be set in your notification object/apply rule.

apply Notification "mail-icingaadmin" to Service {
....

  vars.notification_from = "Icinga Notifications <icinga-notifications@server.com>"

...

  assign where host.vars.notification.mail
}

Custom Command

Depending on the mail binary and distribution involved, the parameters are different. Example from mail-service-notification.sh:

  ## Debian/Ubuntu use mailutils which requires `-a` to append the header
  if [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then
    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE" | $MAILBIN -a "From: $MAILFROM" -s "$SUBJECT" $USEREMAIL
  ## Other distributions (RHEL/SUSE/etc.) prefer mailx which sets a sender address with `-r`
  else
    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE" | $MAILBIN -r "$MAILFROM" -s "$SUBJECT" $USEREMAIL
  fi

MTA

Postfix, exim, sendmail take the daemon user into account. For all distributions use icinga, Debian uses nagios for historical reasons.

Postfix

Update the canonical map and restart your MTA.

vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical

vim /etc/postfix/canonical

icinga icinga-notifications@server.com

postmap hash:/etc/postfix/canonical

systemctl restart postfix

Resources:
http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html

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Small typo:

should be:

True that, thanks :+1: