mailx (from address issue)

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Dirk Moolman wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a problem where we are trying to send mail from our linux
>> servers, but would like to display in the "From" line, a specific
>> address.
>>
>> I use the -r option (man page:  -r address  - Sets the From address)
>>
>> But what currently happens, is that we receive the mail in the format:
>>
>>
>> From: <user at domain that mail was sent from on the server> on behalf of
>> (-r address)
>>
>>
>> Does this formatting come from the exchange server that we are using as
>> our relay server ?
>
>Is your linux server running an MTA? or is it just passing it along to a
>mail hub?

There are several ways to do this with the best method depending
on the complexity of the e-mails (do they need MIME parts).  For
simple text e-mails something like this should work:

(
	echo 'From: user at example.com\n\n'
	cat mailfile
DONE
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail destination

The echo command generates the from address followed by at least
one blank line which sendmail takes as the message headers.

Bill
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