[ale] sendmail inquiry

[Lightner, Jeff]

Haven't done that in a while - notes I wrote myself when I was
experimenting once:

Command to get mailx (on Linux) to send mail without using aliases and
specified email address:

mailx -s "subject" <email addresses> -n -- -F<from as it should appear>

Therefore:

echo "Test Message body" | mailx -s "Test Message Subject" -n -- -F
newdude at newcompany.com

Sends the test message body piped into mailx and passes the -n to
sendmail to not use aliases and then the -- -F sends to sendmail the
format the email address should take.

Of course you can pipe whatever is sending mail into mailx rather than
the echo I'm doing.   You should also be able to setup aliases if this
is a permanent requirement that all mail go out as newdude.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:49 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] sendmail inquiry

So, here's the problem.  User application uses login id for users to 
send email:  dude at company.com

company is purchased and now dude at company.com email address is 
newdude at newcompany.com

Problem is, we are sending email from the command line and it's going 
out as dude.  How do we make it go out as newdude at newcompany.com?


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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