misc/55936: send-pr does not set mail envelope from

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Thu Aug 28 02:50:13 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR misc/55936; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Thorsten Kuehnemann <Thorsten.Kuehnemann at Hamburg.de>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/55936: send-pr does not set mail envelope from
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:34:42 +0300

 On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:47:52PM +0200, Thorsten Kuehnemann wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         55936
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       send-pr does not set mail envelope from
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 24 13:50:11 PDT 2003
 > >Originator:     Thorsten Kuehnemann
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p2 i386
 > >Description:
 > 	send-pr(1) sends mail with the given "From:" address
 > 	but it does not set the mail envelope from.
 [snip]
 > >Fix:
 > 	send-pr calls sendmail directly if $MAIL_AGENT is not set.
 > 	sendmail accepts the option "-f $REPLY_TO" to set it right.
 > 	The X-Authentication-Warning:-Header should be not a problem.
 
 'xactly: I usually use:
 
 env MAIL_AGENT='sendmail -oe -t -froam at ringlet.net' send-pr
 
 This helps :)
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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