mail/mailx question

[Matthew Dillon]

:
:I was trying to write a mail script and couldn't find a way to set the
:"from" field to an arbitrary address. =A0Is there a way to do this with
:the base mail client? =A0I ended up installing mutt to solve the
:problem.
:
:Tim

    Normally you do it by running sendmail directly with numerous options.
    Typically -f ... and -oi.  I'm not sure what the options should be,
    exactly.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>