Philip Hazel writes:
I guess I'm an "other". Not only MUAs, but also other software that
wants to send email uses "-t". I suspect there are more applications
that do this that I/you/we think.
Right. Personally, I've used it more times than I can remember, in
situations ranging from little throwaway scripts up to parts of billing
systems. Am I so unusual? It is the easiest way I know to generate a
valid message with a custom From field on unix.
It wouldn't surprise me if many thousand automated mail senders use it.
Arnt