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michaelvv 03-05-2009 12:36 PM
set 'reply to' in mail
 
I need to set 'reply to' when sending mail (similar to -r in AIX). I am not the System Administrator and having things changed here (user entry in /etc/passwd) is like pulling teeth. I tried to set REPLYTO but to no avail. There is no mailx on any of our Linux boxes. I'm stumped and any help is appreciated.

TB0ne 03-05-2009 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by michaelvv (Post 3466012)
I need to set 'reply to' when sending mail (similar to -r in AIX). I am not the System Administrator and having things changed here (user entry in /etc/passwd) is like pulling teeth. I tried to set REPLYTO but to no avail. There is no mailx on any of our Linux boxes. I'm stumped and any help is appreciated.
Well, what version/distro of Linux? And what mail program are you using, if you don't have mailx running? And how have you tried to set REPLYTO?

Mailx does have a command-line switch to set the reply-to address, but that doesn't help you in this case.

michaelvv 03-05-2009 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by TB0ne (Post 3466023)
Well, what version/distro of Linux? And what mail program are you using, if you don't have mailx running? And how have you tried to set REPLYTO?

Mailx does have a command-line switch to set the reply-to address, but that doesn't help you in this case.

uname -a
Linux webdev01 2.4.21-32.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 15 21:17:59 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

export REPLYTO=xxx@yyy.com

I'm running the Korn shell

Tinkster 03-05-2009 05:21 PM
And what are you using to send mail?

michaelvv 03-05-2009 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Tinkster (Post 3466277)
And what are you using to send mail?
/bin/mail

Tinkster 03-05-2009 07:58 PM
So it's an ancient dead-rat machine?

Has it got mutt? sendmail?

TB0ne 03-05-2009 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by michaelvv (Post 3466234)
uname -a
Linux webdev01 2.4.21-32.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 15 21:17:59 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

export REPLYTO=xxx@yyy.com

I'm running the Korn shell
Well, the uname -a will give you kernel and other info. Version/distro is like RedHat 5 or OpenSuSE 10.3, etc.

Based on your kernel, and the references to the mail program you're running, it's not surprising you're missing some options.

You can try to download/install a more modern mail program from source, but given what you say about your environment, that may not be easy. And exporting that environment variable...never seen that done before....


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