[NBLUG/talk] How to set FROM field in script-generated email?

[E Frank Ball III]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:24:25PM -0800, Dave Sisley wrote:
 > Troy Arnold wrote:
 > >
 > > This message is referring to the hostname of your local machine.  Mutt
 > > hands off delivery off the message to the local MTA; it doesn't do SMTP
 > > itself.
 > >   
 > Sure - my machine has no domain set.  It's just localdomain.
 > > So, you can use another scriptable client that does do SMTP (sorry, no
 > > suggestions), or configure your local MTA to send a valid HELO.  
 > Would that be sendmail, then?  I took a quick look at the config file 
 > for that, but don't know where to set it. (I have a book I won @ NBLUG, 
 > I'll dig that out when I get a chance).


Your MTA could be sendmail, postfix, or exim (debian defaults to exim, I
don't know about anything else these days).  If it's postfix I can help,
the domain is set in /etc/postfix/main.cf.  All of these will have a
binary called "sendmail" for compatibility purposes.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us