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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kyle Wheeler
>Sent: 08 May 2008 06:33 PM
>
>
>On Thursday, May 8 at 05:56 PM, quoth Dirk Moolman:
>> We have postfix installed (also bundled with the media)
>>
>> postfix-2.1.1-1.17
>
>Hm. Okay. I don't know much about postfix, but it's sendmail binary
>*should* support the -f flag (and *does*, according to the manual
>http://www.postfix.org/sendmail.1.html).
Sorry, my mistake - yes, it does have the -f flag. From the man pages:
-f sender
Set the envelope sender address. This is the address where
delivery problems are sent to, unless the message
contains an Errors-To: message header.
>>>> Where my Linux server sends:
>>>>
>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> Weird... That looks like an invalid construction. Is that just how
the
>>> email is displayed, or is that the raw source of the email?
>>
>> I am not sure. Will I see this in the header ? When I open the
>> header, I find:
>>
>> From: "root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>Ahh, okay, that's fine. Many mail reader programs try and make email
>headers look prettier, and so their output isn't a good way to
>diagnose what might be really going on. To know what's *really* in the
>email, you need the un-modified raw email (what it's called depends on
>your email program).
>
>
>>>> I also set $REPLYTO in the muttrc file:
>>>>
>>>>>>> set envelope_from=yes
>>>>>>> set hdrs=yes
>>>>>>> my_hdr From: $REPLYTO
>>
>>
>>> How is REPLYTO supplied to mutt?
>>
>>
>> The REPLYTO is sent to the script via a parameter ($5), which is then
>> assigned to the variable REPLYTO.
>
>
>That could be your problem. Let's see this script.
My script - not very elegant, but it does the trick:
########################################################################
########
## Program name : mailmx
## Purpose : To mail file attachments
## Author : Dirk Moolman
## Date written : 25-07-2006
########################################################################
####
if [ -z "$5" ]
then
echo
echo " USAGE: mailmx <Email Addr> <Subject> <File> <Attachment
name> <Sender>"
echo
echo " Note: parameters must be given in quotes"
echo
else
echo "Sending mail ..."
echo
MAILMX_TO=$1
MAILMX_SUBJECT=$2
MAILMX_FILE=$3
MAILMX_ATTACHMENT=/tmp/$4
MAILMX_FROM=$5
export MAILMX_TO MAILMX_SUBJECT MAILMX_FILE MAILMX_ATTACHMENT
MAILMX_FROM
# Because mutt does not handle renaming of attachments, this
script
# now has to do the renaming
# This is not very efficient, as big files will take system
resource
# to be "renamed" (copied)
cp $MAILMX_FILE $MAILMX_ATTACHMENT
## this was added to change the From: address for the e-mails being sent
out
REPLYTO=$5
export REPLYTO
echo "" | mutt -x -a "$MAILMX_ATTACHMENT" -s "$MAILMX_SUBJECT"
"$MAILMX_TO"
"$MAILMX_TO";
## mutt was giving errors, so I added the sleep, to give mutt
time to
## complete its processing, before removing the file
sleep 10
rm $MAILMX_ATTACHMENT
fi
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