mail/mailx question

[Tim Darby]

Thanks, Matt and Bill.  It didn't occur to me that sendmail could be
used for this.  Am I correct in thinking that dma would handle this
too?

Tim


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :
> :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>