Today at 7:51pm, Andrew Jorgensen said: >I need a way to set the 'From' address in a email sent from the >command-line using the 'mail' program (the BSD version I think, whatever >Red Hat / Fedora is using). I imagine that this program uses the local >mail service (postfix in this case), so a configuration there would be fine.
Depending on the version of 'mail' you have, you can do it in several ways. Sometimes the "From:" header can just be passed in on stdin with the rest of the headers and the message by using the -t switch, IIRC. Some versions also have a -f flag that lets you pass a from address through to sendmail. >Heck, even if I could manually set the Reply-To: field using 'mail' >(perhaps some directive in mail.rc?) that would be sufficient. I've >scoured the man page a couple of times, but it's a little muddled >because 'mail' is also used for reading mail. Again, you can also set Reply-To: on standard in, at least with some versions, by using -t. One version I use with a perl script I wrote does the following: mail -a "Reply-To: Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" \ -a "From: Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" \ -s "This is my Subject" \ "Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" Some versions use -r for return address, too. Mac -- Mac Newbold MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macnewbold.com/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
