Re: mail/mailx question

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Darby wrote:
> I was trying to write a mail script and couldn't find a way to set the
> "from" field to an arbitrary address.  Is there a way to do this with
> the base mail client?  I ended up installing mutt to solve the
> problem.
>
> Tim

AFAIK, you will need to have your script bypass mail, Mail, mailx and call the 
MTA binary directly:

man sendmail, the -F and -f options.

exim fully supports both flags.

courier-mta probably does also. Not currently installed here.

postfix 'sendmail option' interface supports at least the '-F'.


Bill