John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> Neil Schneider wrote:
>> John Oliver wrote:
>> >
>> > How do you change the From: header when sending mail from the command
>> > line with 'mail'?
>>
>> -r address
>> Sets the From address. Overrides any from variable specified
>> in
>> environment or startup files. Tilde escapes are disabled.
>> The
>> -r address options are passed to the mail transfer agent
>> unless
>> SMTP is used.
>
> Tested on:
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Update 5)
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Update 8)
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Update 5)
> Red Hat Linux release 9
> Fedora Core release 5
>
> All failed. What version of mail are you using?
I don't use any, very often. This particular man page excerpt came from my
SuSE 10.0 system running mailx-11.4-4. I didn't test, I just looked up the man
page.
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