Re: What's the 'from'-variable up to?

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2000-11-20 11:44:31 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:

> I use
>       set from="Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> to change my address from local user to provider's user. It did not work
> until I changed 'sendmail' from
>       sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
> to 
>       sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> 
> So I ask myself, what's 'from' all about?

The $from variable sets the From mail header.  If you send the
$envelope-from variable, the -f command line parameter you describe
will be automatically added to sendmail's invocation.

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Thomas Roessler                         <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>