Subject: Re: Using Mail
From: Arthur Corliss (acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 15:18:39 AKST
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jamie Hushower wrote:
>
> I am working in unfamiliar territory...
>
> Can anyone recommend an easy way to cause a message sent using the
> command line "mail" to appear to come from a sender other than the
> actual sender? I may not be asking the correct question.
>
> I have created a cgi script that sends confirmation email when an order
> is placed. Because the script is run by apache, the message appears to
> the recipient to be sent by "apache". This may be a bit confusing. Can I
> change the reply-to address? Does it necessarily have to be from a user
> with an account? I have been playing with sudo, but am not getting what
> I want. Or anything, for that matter.
Assuming the user is a trusted user you could use sendmail in arpanet mode and
have it extract the From:/Sender: fields from STDIN. The only downside is
that you do need to terminate lines with \r\n sequences (carriage return -
line feed).
For example, in Perl you would:
open(MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -ba -t") || die $!;
print MAIL "$headers\n\n$content";
close(MAIL);
where $headers would be the To/From/Subject lines.
--Arthur Corliss
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