Am Dienstag 28 Mai 2002 09:18 schrieb Greg Morgan:

> I know my understanding of mail systems is limited.  But I am wondering
> if an inituser variable should be created in POSIXness.conf file.  This
> would allow a user to configure who mail is coming from.  However, even
> if I change the POSIXness.mail line from
> ...
>       {       echo "RSET"
>               echo "HELO $fqdn"
>               echo "MAIL FROM:<$user@$fqdn>"
> ...
> to
> ...
>       {       echo "RSET"
>               echo "HELO $fqdn"
>               echo "MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> ...
> I still received email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not my
> desired [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dumb question - any chance you're misguided by the smtp-rfc-chat?

If you look into POSIXness mail a few lines further you'll find

echo "From: $user@$fqdn"
which is the place where the "From:" in your mail is defined.

> The POSIXness.mail diff is below.

> [root@baloo orig]# diff -bu POSIXness.mail POSIXness.mail.new
> --- POSIXness.mail      Mon May 27 23:36:16 2002
> +++ POSIXness.mail.new  Mon May 27 23:36:16 2002
> @@ -183,6 +183,8 @@
>
>         fqdn=${MAIL_DOMAIN:-`hostname -f`}
>         user=${USER:-$LOGNAME}
> +       #if mail is started from init set user to root
> +       user=${user:-root}
>         smtpserv=${MAIL_SERVER:-mail}
>
>         while getopts va:b:c:d:h:s: opt ; do


I really hope this one will either be improved or just make it's way into 
Bering rc-next and Dachstein 1.0.x

kp

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