[TriLUG] Command line mail

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:21, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> It wouldn't exactly be a drop-in replacement, but it would be pretty
> simple to use "sendmail -t" to send your mail.   When sendmail is
> invoked with the -t flag, it will read the 'to' and 'from' from the
> headers you give it on standard input.  For example:
> 

One more tip -- if the user who is sending mail with sendmail -t is not
root, it's probably a good idea to add that user's username to
/etc/mail/trusted-users (if you're using the sendmail MTA).  Otherwise,
there will be an "X-Authentication-Warning" header added to the outgoing
message.  I'm not sure how to do this with postfix (but postfix does
support the "sendmail -t" functionality).

It looks like in your case root is sending the mail, and root is already
"trusted," but I thought it was worth mentioning.

--Jeremy

-- 
Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
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