Neil Schneider wrote: > 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. >
Seems to me I used to use perl's Mail::Sendmail just in order to specify "from" at message submittal time. Now I see that python has a smtplib package that seems similarly useful. Prolly, there's a tcl-way as well? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
