Despite what the man page says, and what I have read out on the web, I cannot get the mail command to let me change the “from address”
I have tried to change the reply address (-R my@address.com )my@address.com )
Anyone have any luck, from the command line (as I am setting up cron jobs) in changing the “from” address?
echo test | mail -s “This is a test” user@domain.com (this is the basic command I wish to use, but change the “from address”)
joharmon:
Despite what the man page says, and what I have read out on the web, I
I have tried to change the reply address (-R my@address.com )my@address.com )
Anyone have any luck, from the command line (as I am setting up cron
echo test | mail -s “This is a test” user@domain.com (this is the basic
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vodoo
December 6, 2010, 10:49am
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As far as I remember only a “trusted” user can do this. For sendmail they are listed in /etc/mail/trusted-users; for postfix: I don’t know.
Anybody can do this with sendmail. But for an untrusted user, an “X-Authentication-Warning:” header is added.
Note that I just tested, and it is fine.
I don’t know what happens with postfix, though I might experiment later today.
I used: mailx -rsender@hostname recipient
vodoo
December 6, 2010, 3:07pm
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Anybody can do this with sendmail. But for an untrusted user, an “X-Authentication-Warning:” header is added.
Correct. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
On 2010-12-06 13:36, nrickert wrote:
> I don’t know what happens with postfix, though I might experiment later
It doesn’t matter if you are using mailx. It would, perhaps, if you used
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Carlos E. R.
malcolmlewis:
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echo test | mail -s test -r me@mydomain.com me@mydomain.com
nrickert:
Anybody can do this with sendmail. But for an untrusted user, an “X-Authentication-Warning:” header is added.
Note that I just tested, and it is fine.
I don’t know what happens with postfix, though I might experiment later today.
I used: mailx -rsender@hostname recipient
Can you do it with just mail, and not mailx?
I am not using postfix or sendmail. I am using qmail. Anything I need to tweak for that?
vodoo
December 6, 2010, 5:32pm
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Can you do it with just mail, and not mailx?
> ls -l /usr/bin/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 24 10:18 /usr/bin/mail -> mailx
Yes, you can. The ‘mail’ command is a symbolic link to ‘mailx’. A command may behave different according to the name under which it is called, but with mailx it should make no difference.
You can also set the ‘from’ variable instead of using the -r option. (man mailx).
ab
December 6, 2010, 5:51pm
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Works for me:
echo test | mail -r ab@novell.com -s ‘test subject’ ab@novell.com
Maybe the version of mail/mailx you are using.
<quote>which mail
OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 with latest patches.
Good luck.
On 12/06/2010 09:06 AM, joharmon wrote:#276890 )me@mydomain.com me@mydomain.com http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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On 2010-12-06 17:06, joharmon wrote:
> echo test | mail -s test -r me@mydomain.com me@mydomain.com
Check your installation. That is not the correct mail program.
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Carlos E. R.
On 2010-12-06 17:06, joharmon wrote:
> Can you do it with just mail, and not mailx?
No, and yes.
cer@Telcontar:~> which mail
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Carlos E. R.