[H-GEN] Email "from"

[Martin Pool]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com>)

Luke Grant wrote:
> i currently have the email being sent in the following format.
> 
> >open(MAIL,"somemailfile");
> >print MAIL "the email";
> >close(MAIL);
> >
> >open(STDIN, "thesamemailfile");
> >system("mail","-s","subject","recipient at host");
> 
> of course the reader recieves the email and the "from" line contains
> apache at myhost.com

It's probably better to call sendmail(8) directly.  IIRC many varieties
recognize a -f option to set the  From line (or just emit your own
header), and if you make apache a trusted user you can use -bs IIRC to
set the 'Sender' line.

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