> Actually I see 2 more issues. The first one is minor and I'm not sure > if it should be fixed. When I just started my "experiments" (trying to > send an email), it tried to run sendmail and the first solution I > thought I found was to specify a mailer in the config. But it > apparently didn't help.
The "mail" utility is mostly POSIX-conformant and, as required by POSIX, it is configured using two configuration files: system-wide $sysconfdir/mail.rc (where $sysconfdir is set when configuring the package) and per-user ~/.mailrc [1]. To configure mailer, set the "sendmail" variable [2] in either of them. > The second one is graver. I see no way to pass the From header. When I > do `echo $'From: ...\r\n\r\nbody'`, Use the -a (--apend) command line option [3]: $ mail --help | grep header -a, --append=HEADER: VALUE append given header to the message being sent ... Regards, Sergey [1] https://mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Mail-Configuration-Files.html [2] https://mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Mail-Variables.html#index-sendmail [3] https://mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Invoking-Mail.html
