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Sending email from a script & specifying the "from" address

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http://www.unix.com – Hello all, I have a requirement to send an email from a shell script. Simple enough. A google search gives thousands of examples. But here's the catch. I need to be able to specify the "from" address, and none of the examples I've found allow for that. When I used the mail or mailx commands, the email goes out just fine, but it comes from oracle@hostname.domain.com I need the "from" address to be webmaster@domain.com I could write an Expect script that telnets to the SMTP server on port 25 and issues the relevant commands, but I feel like there must be a simpler solu (HowTos)

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Submitted by robot1 on 11/22/2012

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Hi,

Hoping someone can help me configure this.

I have assigned a dedicated IP and setup a DNS for mail.domain.com to the dedicated IP address.

Now mail.domain.com is used to send email (SMTP). However, when I look at the headers of the received email, it is the domain and IP address of my primary reseller domain.

I want the IP address and domain to be sent from mail.domain.com in the headers.

I'm sending email from a server, let's say domain.com.

I also have Google Apps email set up for hosted email, same domain, domain.com.

If I get mail sent to me from anywhere else, I receive things just fine.

Every day I get an error mail from the server, about an email that could not be sent. The error mail is sent successfully by ssmtp. The mail that failed to get delivered, is failed because it's sent by the cron service to: andre@odin2 (no such email address exist)

Technical details of permanent failure: DNS Error: Domain name not found

I've tried to force all CRON email to go to corr

I have email headers that look like the following. In the end I would like to accomplish sending each email address to its own variable, such as: user1@domain.com='user1@domain.com' user2@domain.com='user2@domain.com' user3@domain.com='user3@domain.com' etc...

I know the sed to get rid of the extra characters but I just need to know how to get all of the email addresses.

sendEmail: Script and Array 1 year 4 weeks ago

I have a script that send email using sendEmail (CentOS shell) script is:

Code: sendEmail -vvv -u "TestCompany, Inc.: USB Added" -f user@domain.com -t To@domain.com -s ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com -m "USB Activity" -o tls=aut o username=user3@domain.com password=password So far this works fine.

Now i create a ConfigFile as follows:

Code: Company=TestCompany, Inc. FromEmail=u

Reply from Catchall 28 weeks 6 days ago

Hi Everyone,

I'm on 11.34x and have a question about catch all. I am sure many of you to avoid SPAM use emails such as google@domain.com and cpanel@domain.com all going to one email account. This works great for spam because when companies like lastfm had a breach, I just send that email address into a black hole.

My question comes around replying.

Hi,

I have a .sh file, to email a report of our backups from a linux machine.

Here's the situation:

I have a domain, let's say domain.com. That domain has Google Apps for Business enabled, so all mail delivered to @domain.com will end up at Google (MX records point to Google).

I have a PHP script at domain.com that I use to send mail to myself.

I did some research online looking for a way to create an alias email address using cPanel. Meaning, an address that is different, but that will send all messages to a different email address I selected on that domain.

I saw several posts about using a forward, but it does not seem like a "real" alias.