 | | | Changing sender address within mail | Changing sender address within mail 2007-07-05 - By Collins, Kevin [MindWorks]
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You can also use 'sendmail -f user@(protected)' to set the "from" address,
but its a little more complicated than the mail command. Also, the
actual sender must be root (on most platforms)...
Kevin
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From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected)
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of John Haxby
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:06 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Changing sender address within mail
d.qureshi@(protected) wrote:
> I cannot see an option within the mail command to specify a sender's
address.
>
> Any ideas how I can change the out going sender's address?
>
I don't know about the mail command, but mutt (which is functionally
very similar for this purpose) has an environment variable that you cat
set to specify the From: address -- according to the man page it's EMAIL
and I use it for scripts like yours.
The other technique I used from time to time is simply to talk to port
25 and construct the entire conversation and then I have complete
control over who the message is from, well, to within whatever sanitary
checks the listener on that port makes :-)
jch
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