Re: Help with Unix MAIL program

From: William Park (opengeometry@yahoo.ca)
Date: 04/02/03


From: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Date: 2 Apr 2003 05:43:59 GMT

In <comp.unix.shell> Sardonic <sardonic@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Addendum.
>
> It's the 'From' header that is the relevant one. I did a test by sending email
> to myself. When I used Unix MAIL to reply to it, it used the email address
> shown in the From header.
>
> Any way to change the value that Unix MAIL uses for the 'From' header?

Usually, "From:" header is set by MTA (mail transport agent) like
Sendmail. This is configuration problem at the server, either mail or
DNS.

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing. 


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