Re: using mail

[Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> When I use: mail <inet.addrs> it sends mail to that address with the 
> options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.
> 
> But it sends it from "root" (when I am logged on as root). "root" of 
> course does not exist at that inet.addrs.
> 
> How do I with an option not send from "root" as root but from 
> "whomever" at inet.addrs?

You can do something like:

mail -a 'From: some@bogus.email.address' recipient@wherever.net

The -a option adds an arbitrary mail header, see mail(1)

I tested this, it seems to work.


alternatively, you could "su" to the appropriate user before running mail.


Sam