Re: [SLE] sending automatic mail

On 18 Jun 2003 at 5:25, alan@ibgames.com wrote: From: alan@ibgames.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date sent: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 05:25:00 +0100 Send reply to: alan@ibgames.com Priority: normal Subject: [SLE] sending automatic mail

Hi folx,

Can someone give me a pointer please. This is SuSE 7.1.

I want to be able to send mail as a result of something that happens within a program. The body of the mail is stored within a file. The mail server is on another machine on the network.

I tried using elm with the command:

elm -s "subject" to_address

The created an e-mail with the correct details for to_address, the subject and the body, but it set the from_address to alan@YAST_ASK instead of the correct machine name. The mail server, which it found with no problem, quite correctly rejected this as 'Sender Domain does not exist'.

So...

What I need is some info on how to either set the sender properly, or an alternative way of sending out the mail.

Any advice gratefully accepted.

alan --

OK - I finally solved this one on my own. The solution is as follows: Go into YAST, select 'System Administration', then 'Change Configuration File' Scroll down to a variable called 'FROM_HEADER' and set it to the full name of your machine. alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html