Question Change "from"-address for cron emails

[Maximilian Füsslin]

Is there a way to change the "from"-address for cron emails?
I get messages from "[email protected]", but I want from address to be "[email protected]".
My full FQDN is "subdomain.domain.com" (also the URI where the plesk panel is accessible) which is also my /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname.
Mail server is reachable from "mail.domain.com".

Is there a way to tell cron or postfix to use "[email protected]" as sender address for cron / system emails? Otherwise my personal gmail account rejects all cron mails, because (presumably) DMARC fails...

I know I can achieve this if I pipe the output of my cron scripts to the mail command:

* * * * * mycroncommand | mail -s "my subject" -r [email protected] [email protected]

But that feels kinda hacky...

Thank you for your help.

 

[gbotica]

Hi,

You can use the MAILTO setting in your cron file or crontab:

[email protected]

That will send all cron job output to the designated email address.

 

[Maximilian Füsslin]

Thank you but problem is not how to send emails via cron job, the problem is the FROM/SENDER address the emails get sent with.

 

[Bitpalast]

Try this parameter in your cron job:
-S [email protected]

or use this line in your crontab file:
[email protected]

 

[Maximilian Füsslin]

Try this parameter in your cron job:
-S [email protected]

or use this line in your crontab file:
[email protected]

Thank you! Didn't know about "MAILFROM".