Change email header .....

Agus agus.262 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 09:35:02 UTC 2008


2008/7/14 Bill Campbell <freebsd at celestial.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008, Agus wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >
> >All i wanna do this time is change the mail from: header to another
> >address...As my system is named after an internal network name and doesnt
> >resolv from outside my LAN..when i send an email, for instance when a user
> >registers, they received it with the systems internal address and they
> cant
> >reply it cause of course it will get bounced....So i wanna change the from
> >header to an address where i have a mail redirection account....I know how
> >to do it from telnet for instance..its simple..but as i send emails from a
> >script using the mail program..
> >
> >I basically do cat welcome_msg|mail -s "Welcome..." user at mail
> >
> >So i was wondering if there is a way to send this automated emails
> changing
> >the header from:
> >Perhaps theres another program or way...Im open to suggestions...
>
> Mutt allows one to specify any headers you like, even being able
> to tailor them to the recipient.
>
> One could also contruct your own headers, and feed it through
> sendmail:
>
> cat << DONE
> From: foo at example.com
> Subject: anything you like
> Reply-To: foo1 at exmple.com
>
> There is a blank line separating this message body from the
> headers above.
>
> Bill
> DONE || /usr/lib/sendmail recipient at example.com
>
> Substitute the appropriate path for sendmail if necessary.
>
> Bill
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Hi guys...thankss...it seems thats exactly what i need...i ll try it now...

Yes..sorry..i am using Sendmail....forgot that..

Thank u very much guys....
C ya...


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