On 21-07-2009, at 13h 27'04", steve wrote about "Re: Sending mail from the command line" > > > > cat myfile.txt | mail -s 'test' m...@example.com > > > No. This will send a mail to m...@example.com (which is alright) but I > want to send a mail to m...@example.com from account t...@example.com (I'm > sorry I mixed things up in my previous message). The question is how can > I specify t...@example.com on the command line?
cat myfile.txt | mail -s test -F /tmp/.muttrc m...@example.com where /tmp/.muttrc contains: send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Alternative user <t...@example.com>' Or a smarter way is to add a formula to send always to m...@example.com as from t...@example.com something like this (in your regular .muttrc file): send-hook '~C ^...@example.com$' 'my_hdr From: Alternative user name <t...@example.com>' and then use mutt as usual (without -F). I suggest also to read about use_envelope_from variable from mutt. Also about the option -f of sendmail or similar MTA. Ionel
