mailx (from address issue)

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>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.

Note:  The DONE line above is a mistake and left over from
another way I was going to do it.

Bill
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