Re: Changing sender address within mail

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

d qureshi mdx ac uk wrote:
> I cannot see an option within the mail command to specify a sender's address.
>
> Any ideas how I can change the out going sender's address?
>   
I don't know about the mail command, but mutt (which is functionally 
very similar for this purpose) has an environment variable that you cat 
set to specify the From: address -- according to the man page it's EMAIL 
and I use it for scripts like yours.

The other technique I used from time to time is simply to talk to port 
25 and construct the entire conversation and then I have complete 
control over who the message is from, well, to within whatever sanitary 
checks the listener on that port makes :-)

jch