Re: force from address in out of office message

[antgel <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

Gabe Granger wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I found the following procmailrc recipe that does "Out of Office"
> 
> #:0: Whc: vacation.lock
> #       * $^To:.gabe*
> #       !^FROM_DAEMON
> #       !^X-Loop:gabe@pancentric.com
> #       | formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache
> #       :0 ehc
> #       | (formail -rI"Precedence: junk" \
> #       -A"X-Loop:gabe@pancentric.com"; \
> #       echo "Thank you for your message"; \
> #       echo " "; \
> #       ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
> 
> The problem is that I'm when it sends a email back to the user, it 
> comes from gabe.bdmedia@mail.bdmedia.co.uk not gabe@pancentric.com I 
> understand why, but would like to some how force the recipe to make  the
> from address something other the username @ mailserver.  I really  dont
> know much about procmail would if anyone knows a simple way of  does
> this I would live to hear it.

man formail.  Perhaps something like:

       | (formail -rI"Precedence: junk" \
       -I"From: gabe@pancentric.com" \          <--- look here
       -A"X-Loop:gabe@pancentric.com"; \
       echo "Thank you for your message"; \
       echo " "; \
       ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t