Re: What's the 'from'-variable up to?

[Michael Elkins]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:44:31AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> I use
>       set from="Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> to change my address from local user to provider's user. It did not work
> until I changed 'sendmail' from
>       sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
> to 
>       sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> 
> So I ask myself, what's 'from' all about?

`from' sets the default From: line in the mail header.  The sendmail -f
option sents the envelope return address (what normally goes in the From
line of mbox format mailboxes).  I'm not sure setting $from didn't work for
you.  Does my_hdr also not work?

me