Hello, I desperately need a way of specifying the From: address when using the mail command. It doesn't seem to have a command line argument for this. Basically, the mail server we use seems to do a lookup on the domain of the From: address of each email to be delivered. If that domain isn't able to be looked up (i.e. it's something like "hostname.sub.domain.com" instead of "sub.domain.com") then it fails to deliver the mail. I don't know if we are able to alter the settings of the mail server in this way, because we effectively rent the services from messagelabs (who do our virus checking etc...). Asking them to change a setting like this probably would get us nowhere. The backup software we are using, and lots of scripts, use "mail -s subject user@xxxxxxxxxx" to email people, but none of these emails are getting through because our internal hostnames are not available to the outside world, for obvious reasons. At the moment, the from addresses are being set to: user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and we need them to be set to this instead: user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx I guess there are two options... One is to reconfigure sendmail on each host, and the other is to somehow specify a from address using the mail command. The much preferred solution is to do something that does not involve changing the mail command, or the data or arguments sent to the mail command. Upgrading the mailx package is possible though. The reason I don't want to change the command used to send the email is because I don't know if we will be able to do this within the backup software. I'm sure lots of people have experienced this before, but how did you all get around the problem of emailing from internal host machines to the outside world? Thanks in advance, Hobbs. -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Email: richard.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377 _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by MCI's Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.mci.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
