topic Re: Changing from in sendmail command in Operating System - HP-UX

Changing from in sendmail command

hpuserhk — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:17:00 GMT

Hello Friends
I am writing shell program where i am sending some attachment to list of emails,while executing script it is sending email but from it is taking default , i want to use my email as from instead of default eg: now it is taking abc@xyz.com as from(sender) i want to change it to myname@myemail.com,please advice how to do this
I am using sendmail command in script also advice how to attach file in sendmail , i am attaching file using < (redirection) its sending file but not as attachment but it display contents in mail

Thanks & Regards

Re: Changing from in sendmail command

Dennis Handly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:25:19 GMT

Any reason you are using sendmail rather than mailx?

Some threads about changing the from address:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1212218
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1020491
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=887486

A thread about attachments:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1235413

Re: Changing from in sendmail command

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:33:34 GMT

Use Mpack http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/mpack-1.6/ which allows you to send the files as attachment and also you can change the sender to whatever you like.
Have a look at the man pages at the above site

Re: Changing from in sendmail command

hpuserhk — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:49:31 GMT

Thanks Danis,

No specific reason for using sendmail

I will try with mailx,if possible please exact syntax of mailx to specicy own FROM adress (eg me@me.com) with attachment file(a.xls)

Thanks

Best Regards

Re: Changing from in sendmail command

VK2COT — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:38:51 GMT

Hello,

YOu already got some good advice.

And here is more:

a) There is nothing wrong with this syntax to
set up From: line with sendmail MTA itself:

# sendmail -fmyname@myemail.com recipient
b) Regarding attachments in email messages.
Many ways. Popular one is mutt:

# mutt -a myfile.doc -s "Word document enclosed" -x recipient
Cheers,

VK2COT

Re: Changing from in sendmail command

Dennis Handly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:32:22 GMT

>if possible please exact syntax of mailx to specify own FROM address (eg me@me.com)

If you followed the links, you would see "mailx -r me@me.com". And the second link has another link with a few more details:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=685447

Re: Changing from in sendmail command

Dennis Handly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:59:07 GMT

Here is another link. The first part is for HP-UX, even though it is now in a linux forum:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1263604