Re: Why use set hostname?

[clemensF]

> Gottipati Aravind:

> and that works just fine. My question now is whats the purpose of that 
> hostname variable if it does not work? am I doing it wrong or do I need
> to set some other variable too.. to get it to work?

whether you can forge your "from:" line or not depends on the mta.
sendmail set the standards for many years in that only administrators were
allowed to user that option.  so you should check your transport agent.

clemens