Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site smeagol.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!oberon!smeagol!earle From: earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: sendmail question Message-ID: <523@smeagol.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 16:53:12 EST Article-I.D.: smeagol.523 Posted: Fri Dec 13 16:53:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 04:31:02 EST References: <566@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Spacecraft Data Systems, JPL, Pasadena, CA Lines: 15 In article <566@brl-tgr.ARPA>, dms@mit-hermes.arpa (David M. Siegel) writes: > I would like to invoke sendmail to send a message with the receipient > specified in the command like, like 'sendmail foo', and have sendmail > set the sender to the contents of the 'from:' line in the message. I > was wondering if this is possible? In 4.2 BSD (at least under Sun) sendmail, -f will set the name of the from person, if the given is put into the ``trusted'' users list in sendmail.cf. -F sets the full name of the sender. Greg Earle Debt Expulsion Laboratory sdcrdcf!smeagol!earle ia-sun2!smeagol!earle@cit-vax.arpa