topic Mail sent as daemon needs to be as someone else in Operating System - HP-UX

Mail sent as daemon needs to be as someone else

Michael Resnick — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:10:42 GMT

Hello -

I have a ksh script running as daemon which sends out email. I'd like the email to be sent as someone else, like appadmin. Can this be done?

(The email is sent as daemon@blah.blah.com. I'd like it to be appadmin@blah.blah.com.)

Thanks!

mike

Re: Mail sent as daemon needs to be as someone else

Rajeev Shukla — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:30:18 GMT

Yes you can do that, it is possible.
If its sendmail use -f option (from address) and if you are using mailx then use -r option
have a look at the man pages of both the commands.

Re: Mail sent as daemon needs to be as someone else

Pratyush Paul_1 — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:58:04 GMT

Mike,

here are the option to do this.

if you are using sendmail

sendmail -f appadmin@blah.com userid@domain.com

if you are using mailx use the -r option.

or what you can do is

mailx -s "mail from appadmin" userid@domain.com

You will have a subject line in your mail "mail from appadmin"

thanks

Pratyush

Re: Mail sent as daemon needs to be as someone else

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:32:16 GMT

Just as another option, I'm attaching a sendmail script that can do things like attachments(this functionality is easily commented out).

It handles to and from address quite nicely.

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