Originally posted by: CHPrjohnso

We often send e-mail messages from different scripts which run on the AIX servers to our own e-mail addresses. The Messaging group tells us that there is a problem with the the source address coming up as user@machine.domain.org instead of user@domain.org.

I send e-mail with this syntax: echo Message | mail -s Subject user@domain.com

Is there an EASY way to change the source address? I've been playing with sendmail -f option but it's giving error messages, not liking the subject, missing the target address in the message, etc.

Originally posted by: shargus

Try changing /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. I think you can change the Dj option to:

Djdomain.com

Also try looking at the DM option to masquerade your server.

Use the -v option with mail to see the SMTP dialog. That may help diagnosing the problem.

Originally posted by: CHPrjohnso

Thanks, I see some improvement with the Dj suggestion - the from address seems to be what I need it to be. I don't know yetif it will make our messaging team happy...

I also used the sendmail -f option.

Changing from the mail command to sendmail, I lost the -s option for subject. Any work-around for that?

Also, when the addressee gets the message, besides not having a subject, there is no "To" address listed. I did try using the -t option which didn't seem to do anything.

Originally posted by: armink

The -f option is your "only" choice... and it's easy:

Your example always works, if you correctly quote the subject and use the right option sequence e.g.
echo "Testing..."|mail -f <sender@domain.whatever> -s "this is a subject" <recipent@another.domain>

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