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Re: Changing 'FROM" field on reply

2006-02-05 06:24:10
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:05:42PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:

I am using a very simple recipe for acknowledging receipts for a project
I am handling.

This is the basic receipt:

              :0 h c
              * !^FROM_DAEMON
              * !^X-Loop: your(_at_)own(_dot_)mail(_dot_)address
              | (formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" \
                  -A"X-Loop: your(_at_)own(_dot_)mail(_dot_)address" ; \
                 echo "Mail received.") | $SENDMAIL -t


The problem is that it always uses this as the from in the reply
message:

Charlie Root <root(_at_)foobar(_dot_)net>

How can I configure it to use a specific address?

Gerard,

This will be dependent on your outgoing SMTP arrangement, i.e., is
it sendmail or sendmail-compatible?  How was it set on installation?  Etc.

However, you might be able to use the -f flag for the proper
"sendmail" (or clone) return address.  That's what I do.  Here
is close to what mine looks like at the end:

   | "$SENDMAIL" $SENDMAILFLAGS -f "${RETURN_FROM}" "${RECIPIENT}"

-- 
dman

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