General pfSense email messages don't share hostname or originating information
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I have a fleet of pfSense firewalls installed at client sites. We use noip as our DDNS service and mailersend.net as our SMTP gateway for outbound messaging. All fleet appliances are built from a templated XML file.
Our own customized reports are templated to tell us what server is sending the report (eg. "This is a periodic report from pfSense at DanDream.clients.xxx.com") in both the Subject line and the message body. (xxx,com being a redacted value of our own domain).
But we just discovered that the default pfSense template (for reboot announcements as an example) don't! We had an appliance send us the following email:
Subject line: pfSense.clients.xxx.com
with a body just containing the lines:
Notifications in this message: 1
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08:18:36 Bootup completeHardly useful information to determine WHICH machine rebooted!
Apparently the "Hostname" field from the System/General Setup page is not prepended to the Subject line by the system's default messaging, only the Domain field is included.
Does anyone have a way to change this so we don't have to manually query the entire fleet for which machine has a new uptime that matches the reboot message?
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The hostname is in the message subject, is that not sufficient?
I'm sure the report could be patched to include it. I'm not sure if that would be accepted into the base though, that sort of change might impact others already parsing email.
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Thanks for the response.
In reviewing your response and looking through my configurations, this one firewall did NOT have a valid Client name set and was missed from my template configuration when the firewall went into service.
I apologize for taking up yours and anyone else's time. I feel like a Newby today.
