From: Roger Realsen (roger.realsen@wareforce.com)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 11:40:28 EST
Thanks to all for the many responses. Below find the different options that
were recommended.
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SET THE MASQUERADE OPTION
In the server's sendmail.cf:
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# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DM
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After the DM put "domain.com", so you have:
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMdomain.com
Save, kill and restart sendmail and test.
Emails should then bear a "From" header of "user@domain.com" instead of
user@server.domain.com <mailto:user@server.domain.com> .
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IN THE COMMAND LINE
I think it's -r then the user:
"mailx -r myrealemail@company.com <mailto:myrealemail@company.com> -m -s
"SOME SUBJECT" john_doe@company.com < some_file_name"
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"FORGE" THE MESSAGE HEADER
If you want to forge the mail header (that's what you're doing in
essence!) you can generate a file that starts with mail header stuff like
this:
From: User Name <username@servername.mycompany.com>
To: john_doe@company.com
Reply-To: username@servername.mycompany.com
Return-Path: username@servername.mycompany.com
Subject: MWAIS (Mail Without An Interesting Subject)
<<the rest of your mail starts here, mind the one blank line!>>
The file can then be emailed with the following command:
/usr/lib/sendmail -t filename
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Realsen [mailto:roger.realsen@wareforce.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:37 AM
To: Hewlett Packard (hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl)
Subject: [HPADM] MAIL - Send From Question
Gurus
HP9000 D250
HPUX 11.0
The above server is not utilized as client email at all. We have an
Exchange system in place for our users. Our users do log in to the above
server though and through an application they all use, generate email from
this server. In most cases the application will generate a file and command
line syntax as follows:
"mailx -m -s "SOME SUBJECT" john_doe@company.com < some_file_name"
Now, when the email is received by John Doe the FROM is set as the user who
initiated the program. So it looks something like this:
"username@servername.mycompany.com"
Now I kind of understand why that is doing that. I was wondering if there
is a way to set the FROM address in a command line so that I can have the
REPLY feature work properly when someone receives the email.
Any help appreciated.
Sincerely,
Roger Realsen
Director of IT
WF Acquisition Sub, Inc.
19 Morgan
Irvine, CA 92618
PH: (949) 472-9000
FX: (949) 452-1413
Email: roger.realsen@wareforce.com
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