Configure vCenter Mail Sender and E-mail Alerts
An update in the vCenter 6.5b patch that I have been anticipating is the ability to change the mail sender address vCenter utilizes for email alerts. Releases prior to 6.5b sent e-mail alerts from root@VCSA_FQDN by default. Even if the Mail Sender was changed within the appliance, e-mails would still have that same root return-path. This proved to be problematic in environments who leveraged SMTP relay servers to pass e-mail authentication or encryption (ie. Office 365 relays). Relay servers in those…