Specify reply address using "mail"

[Krishnan Viswanathan]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out a way of specifying a reply-to address while using "mail" command on linux. Although the "mailx" package is installed on my RH linux system, there is no corresponding "mailx" utility like HP-UX

Any thoughts ? (other than using "sendmail or mutt or pine ?)

Thanks

[RAC_1]

You can set DM macro in sendmail.cf. That will apply to all users.

[Krishnan Viswanathan]

Thanks RAC, I do have masquerading enabled.

Each message would need to have a separate return address depending on the application functionality. Again, this is not just on one box, so installing and maintaining custom mail applications is out of question. It is never an issue on HP-UX or Solaris since they have both "mailx" in addition to "mail".

[Mark Ellzey]

Krishnan,

There is the mailx utility on HP-UX. See man mailx. It's located at /usr/bin/mailx.

Regards,
Mark

[Geoff Wild]

On the linux box, you should be able to use mail:

mail -s "my subject" you@yourdomain.com
Rgds...Geoff

[Rick Garland]

The virtualhosting and/or genericstable may be of help to you.

Check out the web site
http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html

[Mel Burslan]

at the biginning of your outgoing message, if you happen to insert this line as follows:

Reply-To: user@domain.com

followed by a blank line,

you will set the return address of the email to user@domain.com address. So people who hit the reply button, will send an email to this address not the original sender address.

hope it helps

[Tom Smith_9]

Try using "mailx" with the "-r" option.

It works well for me.

-Tom

[Krishnan Viswanathan]

Thanks guys for the ideas. As I mentioned initially, this is needs to be implemented on a bunch of linux boxes (there is no "mailx" utility on linux and only "mailx" has the "-r" option)

Using "sendmail" seems to be the only option for setting a return address and I was hoping to avoid that since it involves changes to too many scripts and "sendmail" is not client friendly. The other option is to use perl's sendeasy and smtp modules which also involves lot of changes to our HP-Ux scripts that use mailx.

Thanks
-Krishnan

[Krishnan Viswanathan]

I have decided to use sendmail so it is easily portable to linux/hp

Thanks!