[pve-devel] [PATCH 1/2] GUI: add new email_from option to datacenter.cfg

[Dietmar Maurer]

> Just adopt your patch and set '-f $mailfrom' inside pvemailforward.pl.
> The mail from header is not really relevant for mail delivery, so I am not sure if
> we need/want to change it at all?
> 
> This just won't look beautiful :) 

A beautiful solution would be if your mailer accept mails from root@<host>? 

> Also it would matter for those who filter emails
> in their email clients by the From field.
> What about this? I've checked with manual substitution for $mailfrom and this
> seems to work as expected.
> open(CMD, "|procmail -f $mailfrom | sendmail -bm -N never -f $mailfrom
> $mailto") ||

I would simply keep the functionality from your patch instead. Just set the envelope sender
in pvemailforward.pl. IMHO, the from field should be set by the application which generates the mail.