Re: yum-updatesd "From" lines

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 16:03 +0100, Iain Hallam wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is a possibly somewhat minor issue, but I thought it was worth
> asking about.
> 
> I'm running yum=updatesd on a few CentOS boxes, and because of the local
> SMTP policies, have to change the From address of mail from servers to
> be a locally deliverable address on our mail hubs. I'm loathe to create
> an address per machine, and the problem is really that I can't tell
> except by looking at the headers which box a message has come from.
> 
> Really, I'd like to see yum-updatesd put the name of the server in its
> outgoing mail messages. I've personally done this by importing the
> socket module and adding a string from socket.gethostname(), but I'm not
> sure whether that's portable. It'd be nice to see something like this in
> the main code; is that possible and would others want to see this?
> 

it would probably be easier to make the subject line configurable and
then you could fill in whatever you wanted in there in the config file.

what do you think?


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