how to change "sender" while sending out email

[Gary Yu]

Hi all,

I'm trying to debug some outbound email issue, if the mail failed to reach the recipient, I wanna get the bounced back mail with error message from mail server to my company mail account instead of the login_name@hostname at the HP server.

is there anyway to change the "sender" to other account at other domain using mailx or elm? DM macro in sendmail.cf can only change domain name, plus I don't want to change sendmail's configure ( it will affect others), the best way is to do it at client side.

I tried to add "From" entry at .elm/elmheaders file, but in the /var/adm/syslog/mail.log, it still shows "from=mylogin_name" ... instead of the mail account I put in the header file.

any idea?

thanks,
Gary

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

To change the sender use sendmail with -f option.

cat file |sendmail -f(from_addr) to_addr

-Sri

[Christopher Caldwell]

cat yourfile | mailx -r address

Pass [address] to network delivery software.

The genericstable rewrites the sender address if you've got a large number of addresses you'd like to rewrite.