Changing the "From" address for a cron generated e-mail in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Issue

  • Our security team that wants a parse of some logs sent to them every day from a specific server. Attempting to add a cron job to do that resulted in a problem with the from addresses. We require the from address to be is-unixtech@company.com instead of root@servername.company.com, since the mail team isn't happy when we send mail from an account that doesn't exist in their records. How can we change this?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • vixie-cron

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