topic Re: mailx OR sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

mailx OR sendmail

nedz — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:00:24 GMT

Friends out there -

As a user - I su - (to root) knowing the root passwd - I then do a mailx and will show that it came from user and NOT AS ROOT

Is there a way to change that so it would show the sender as ROOT -

Re: mailx OR sendmail

Arturo Galbiati — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:52:49 GMT

Hi,
you can change the sender by mailx using -r options:

mailx -r root -s "subject" a@b.c
HTH,
Art

Re: mailx OR sendmail

Peter Godron — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:26:45 GMT

Hi,
please read this earlier thread:
"Sending emails from root after "su -"
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=778737

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

So far you have not awarded any points !

Re: mailx OR sendmail

Oviwan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:32:10 GMT

Hey

the same for sendmal:

$cat <>mail
> from: sender@blah.blubb
> subject: Test
> Msg
> EOF

$sendmail your_email@blah.blubb < mail

Regards

Re: mailx OR sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:03:00 GMT

Shalom,

You could use a sendmail script and change the sender to anybody you want.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

Thats a bit elaborate though.

You could try setting up /etc/aliases on the system and give root an alias to another user or email address

root: nedz@your.net

newaliases command will put that into effect.

Note that mailx uses sendmail as a transport by default so it really doesn't matter wheter you use elm, mailx mail or sendmail itself.

SEP

Re: mailx OR sendmail

Peter Godron — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:41:28 GMT

Hi,
have you had any progress with this problem ?

If this is fixed, could you please complete the thread by awarding points to helpful answers and summarising the solution for you.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 shows how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.