# Notifications sent from

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/notifications-sent-from/1018>\
**Category:** Icinga 2\
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/notifications-sent-from/1018 "2019-04-25T09:41:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![dnsmichi](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/dnsmichi/32/7721_2.png) [@dnsmichi](https://community.icinga.com/u/dnsmichi)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/notifications-sent-from/1018/3 "2019-04-25T11:25:55Z")

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I remembered correctly having collected your infos into a howto lately ☀

> [@Change "mail from" for Icinga notifications](https://community.icinga.com/t/change-mail-from-for-icinga-notifications/190):
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> 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](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/doc/03-monitoring-basics/#notification-commands) 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\>" ... ass…

Cheers,  
Michael

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