mailx.rc set parm for reply-to?

[Jim Turner]

This is probably an easy fix -- maybe I took stupid pills this morning. Is there a parameter that can be set in /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc that is equivalent to using the "-r unix_sysadm@hertz.com" command-line option?

I'm trying to rewire mailx such that any use of it will always rewrite the reply-to as "unix_sysadm@hertz.com" regardless of what account actually invokes mailx for sending via cmd line.

[Steven E. Protter]

how about alias

make mailx alias to mailx -r unix_sysadm@hertz.com

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

add:

set from unix_sysadm@hertz.com

in the .mailrc file or in the system wide:

/usr/share/lib/mailx.rc

Rgds...Geoff

[Jim Turner]

Thanks, Geoff, but no joy -- at least not as root.

Steven, yours might be my solution if I can find an easy way to ensure the alias is set when I need it. The scripts that that need the modified mailx are fired from root's crontab. I've tried it interactively, and it works fine. I'm reserving points assignment for your suggestion until I see if it's the one I use.

Thanks to you both!

[Steven E. Protter]

i understand.

What I might do is set up a file in /etc/rc.config.d

With the alias commands and any other environment you want in your cron scripts.

Call it /etc/rc.config.d/cronenv

All cron scripts will need to be modified to have this line in them:

. /etc/rc.config.d/cronenv

I'm trying this out, not for command alias, but so that I can have central control of my cron environment.

Obviously, I don't now how to modify the configuration file you mentioned.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

Strange it doesn't work for mailx - but it does for elm.

vi ~/elm/elmheaders

Add:

From: unix_sysadm@hertz.com


Then use elm to send email:

elm -s "test" you@yourdomain.com
Rgds...Geoff

[Jim Turner]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. They are all viable solutions. Since we had more than the root user cron-ing mailx commands and needing different rewritten reply-to addresses, we just beat everyone with a stick and told them to code-in the unique "-r someone@somewhere" that they needed. The brighter ones will do it via an env variable. It should be interesting to watch.

[Procnus]

I've run into this sort of thing before, what I've done is add to the top of the email message going out the following line:
~R

@

With the appropriate address and host. If your cat'ing through to mailx you could have your line looking like:
echo "~R @" | cat - | mailx ...

Or similar.

Cheers
Steven

[Jim Turner]

Thanks again for all the wonderful ideas.