Changing from address when using Mailx?

humbletech99 · 12-07-2006, 12:01 PM

Is there a way of changing the from address when using Mailx to send emails from the command line?

I've tried -a "mail from: anotheraccount@domain.com" but this doesn't work.

MensaWater · 12-07-2006, 12:51 PM

Not that I've ever found in the Linux version. The HP-UX version of mailx has a -r flag for specifying who the sender is.

You can set it globally in sendmail with MASQUERADING (DM macro in sendmail.cf)

Otherwise I don't know how you'd do it with mailx.

humbletech99 · 12-07-2006, 01:08 PM

-r isn't a valid option for mailx on my linux box.

I really really don't want to have to su - user -c "mail ....".

MensaWater · 12-08-2006, 11:25 AM

I knew the -r wasn't available on Linux. My comment was I hadn't seen a way to do it on Linux's mailx.

If you always want the user to send as another user then you might want to have a look at sendmail's aliases file. (man aliases).

To change it on the fly though I don't know how you'd do it.