Comments on: setting the from address in GNU mail

By: dan

dan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:30:30 +0000

I don't think you can do that with a single script file. You may wish to look at some proper mailing list management software, such as MailMan.

By: Ramana

Ramana — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:56:24 +0000

i want to send a mail to list of customers, based on their responses (if they are OK with changes) i want to perform some tasks, other wise i should stop executing those tasks, how can i perform this in a single script file

By: dan

dan — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:31:36 +0000

Glad to see that you got it to work – thanks for the follow-up !

By: Mark Aronszajn

Mark Aronszajn — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:42:18 +0000

Got an answer to my own question: with the mail utility on CentOS, there’s no option to the mail command itself that lets you set the sender, however, If you imbed your call to the mail utility in a shell script, you can modify the USER and HOST environment variables to equal the email sender user and host you want and then export these. Here’s an example:

#!/bin/bash
USER=your.sender.name
HOST=your.sender.host

export USER
export HOST

echo “This is a test.” | mail -s “A test…” to.addressee@to.hostname

By: Mark Aronszajn

Mark Aronszajn — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:16:44 +0000

I am using mail on CentOS 5x which is a variant of Fedora. The mail utility provided does not offer a ‘-a’ or a ‘–append’ option. Does anyone know how to specify a “from” address for this mail utility?

By: Raja

Raja — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:29:11 +0000

hi,
you can try this..it will work for you

mail -s “subject” recive@domain.com — -f sender@domain.tld < /home/messagebody

thanks,
Raja K

By: dan

dan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:37:06 +0000

Glad that you found the article useful !

By: clayzer

clayzer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:19:41 +0000

Whoops! angle brackets got removed…

clayzer :
Excellent leads for me. Thank you both!
Turned out to get the from header (I use postfix) I needed to type:
mail -s “testing” to@example.com ~h
FROM: from@example.com ^D
CC: ^D

By: clayzer

clayzer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:17:02 +0000

Excellent leads for me. Thank you both!

Turned out to get the from header (I use postfix) I needed to type:
mail -s “testing” ~h
FROM: ^D
CC: ^D

By: tayfun

tayfun — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:59:05 +0000

This was just what I needed, thanks. On some mail programs, you have to use ‘-a “FROM: mymail@mail.tld‘” instead of the one above.

Have a nice day!