on Thu, 31 Jan
2008 23:57:23 -0800
> >You use the -t switch to instruct sendmail to get
> >the To: and From: from the email headers.
>
> Not the From:, according to the docs. The bare -t causes the To:, Cc: and
> Bcc: headers to be pulled from the message.
OK, you are correct. I had not looked closely at what sendmail was doing.
Looking at an IP trace I see it is not using what is in te email but something
it generated.
> >You can use the -f to override
> >the From:
>
> You must use the -f unless your system configuration allows sendmail to
> grab the right values from the environment. In my case omitting the -f
> cause sendmail to set the envelope sender to steven@localhost.
It appears it will generate a from if it is not specified. I don't know of any
options that will turn this on or off, only things that change the name it
generates.
> >sendmail -a file-name -f from-address -t (supply the from and get
> >the to from the email headers)
> >or
> >sendmail -a file-name -t (get the from and to from the email headers)
>
> These all work, as do a number of other variations. The command line
> parser is picky about spaces, but I suspect that v8.x is much less picky.
While I do have sendmail v8.12 installed it does not affect the already
installed sendmail v2.03. I can run either version and do run v2.03 when I
want to test something to see what happens.
--
Robert Blair
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