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