Trent, Thanks for your response. Since I am using sSMTP I think it is a little bit more tricky. sSMTP is a sendmail emulator so it actually sends the mail to a mailhub (ie a server running sendmail), and then the mail gets sent out. And since it is a cgi program www-data, like you said, is the user of the process. So I guess the mailhub is going to make the From: the user running the process. But I'm hoping there is a way around this. Any idea's?
thanks Trent wrote: > To Phillip, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is most likely the user your process is running > under. > Do you have sendmail running? It's really easy to fake the from address. > > code snip > ---------------------------------------- > > $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; > $toEmail= '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t"); > print MAIL "To: $toEmail\n"; > print MAIL "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > print MAIL "Subject: Hello World\n\n"; > print MAIL "This is the body\n"; > close(MAIL); > > --------------------------------------- > > Thank You, > Trent > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Who is John Galt? > > phiLLip maDDux II wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send > > out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it > > does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Does anybody have any suggestions of what I should look for? Do I need > > to give more info to help determine the problem? > > > > Thank you! > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
