[TriLUG] Command line mail

[Greg Brown]

Using /bin/mail I don' t think this is possible.

I used to use mailx in the Solaris world to do just this type of thing 
but, in the RH world anyway, mailx doesn't seem to have been ported to 
Linux.  If memory serves, and for what it's worth, the mailx command 
used to be  'mailx -s 'my subject' -r opennms at myhost.mydomain.com 
sendingto at address.com <imported.mail.file'.

I've been tinkering with ELM and I have been able send mail using a 
different reply to address  by setting the REPLYTO variable to the 
address I want but the from line still shows the mail as coming from my 
user account even though I've set the variables USER and LOGNAME.

I'll keep tinkering..

Greg

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 03:50 PM, Tarus Balog wrote:

> Gang:
>
> OpenNMS uses /bin/mail to send mail notifications. Since the actiond 
> process runs as root, the mail appears sent from 
> "root at myserver.mydomain".
>
> They would like it to be something like "opennms at myserver.mydomain". 
> So I have two questions:
>
> 1) I don't think this is possible with /bin/mail. I am right?
>
> 2) Is there another command line mail program that *would* allow one 
> to set the "From" field? It would need to function similarly to 
> /bin/mail to be a drop in replacement.
>
> -T
>
>
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