sendmail question

Greg Earle earle at smeagol.UUCP
Sat Dec 14 07:53:12 AEST 1985


In article <566 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, dms at mit-hermes.arpa (David M. Siegel) writes:
> I would like to invoke sendmail to send a message with the receipient
> specified in the command like, like 'sendmail foo', and have sendmail
> set the sender to the contents of the 'from:' line in the message. I
> was wondering if this is possible? 

In 4.2 BSD (at least under Sun) sendmail, -f<name> will set the name of 
the from person, if the <name> given is put into the ``trusted'' users 
list in sendmail.cf.
-F<fullname> sets the full name of the sender. 

	Greg Earle
	Debt Expulsion Laboratory
	sdcrdcf!smeagol!earle
	ia-sun2!smeagol!earle at cit-vax.arpa



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