alerts not working - monit.spec missing 'adduser monit'

[Tom K]

The rpm build section (monit-5.8.1/system/packages/redhat/monit.spec) is missing monit user creation/deletion script which causes monit to be unable to send email on some cPanel or exim servers with vague "sender verify fail for monit@server" ... "Unrouteable address"

Compare PREIN and POSTIN scripts in

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/monit/monit-5.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
https://www.insaneworks.co.jp/pub/el6/RPMS/x86_64/monit-5.8.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Unless installing from above rpms the user 'monit' needs to be created manually:

/usr/sbin/useradd -M -r -d /var/lib/monit -s /bin/sh -c "monit daemon" monit

[Tildeslash]

The RPM install Monit as root, not as "monit" user, so the unix account is not necessary.

The sender address can be specified using "set mail-format {from: myuser@mydomain}" statement.

=> it is configuration issue, not bug