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Re: how to fake from address in an email



> We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an
> order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the
> user/machine where the CGI is running. How to do this with the various
> email packages? Currently using exim, but may switch to postfix or
> sendmail.

I think you need something like trusted user/hosts (localhost ?) and or
relaying (but don't allow relaying for every1 !).

Just look it up (the ways this is achieved in the packages can be very
different so).



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