[NBLUG/talk] How to set FROM field in script-generated email?

[Daniel Cortes]

I would check out ubuntu if I were you. Its probably the best distro for
beginners. It has a "restricted drivers manager" for installing things like
video cards, wireless cards, and printers. It also has a program called
synaptec for downloading and installing files from depos. There are also
many good programs out there for ubuntu that dont work with other distros
such as Automatix2 which automatically downloads and installs esential
software. all you have to do is check the boxes and click go :) gl and hope
to hear back from you

On Nov 5, 2007 5:24 PM, Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:

> Troy Arnold wrote:
> >  On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:10:19PM -0800, Dave Sisley wrote:
> >
> >> Hey:
> >>
> >> I use a couple of scripts to send out some emails, using mutt in the
> >> shell script.  I'd never noticed that the FROM field was blank in these
> >> emails.
> >>
> >> One recipient has a mail.com address, and that email would not go
> >> through.  I added 'export EMAIL=myaddress at work' to my .bash_profile and
> >> tried sending an email (from a script) to my sonic address.  It was
> >> blocked -  "(reason: 554 5.7.1 localhost.localdomain isn't valid for
> >> HELO/EHLO, please fix your server.)".  Sonic won't accept my email,
> >> either, since I don't have a real domain name for my box.
> >>
> >
> >
> > This message is referring to the hostname of your local machine.  Mutt
> > hands off delivery off the message to the local MTA; it doesn't do SMTP
> > itself.
> >
> Sure - my machine has no domain set.  It's just localdomain.
> > So, you can use another scriptable client that does do SMTP (sorry, no
> > suggestions), or configure your local MTA to send a valid HELO.
> Would that be sendmail, then?  I took a quick look at the config file
> for that, but don't know where to set it. (I have a book I won @ NBLUG,
> I'll dig that out when I get a chance).
> > That
> > should be whatever your reverse IP address is.  If you're on on a sonic
> DSL
> > account it would be something like: 69-12-131-nnn.dsl.static.sonic.net
> >
> so if I have a sonic IP: 66.77.88.99, the reverse IP would be:
> 66-77-88-nnn.dsl.static.net?
> > Also, if you have a static IP address from Sonic, they've got a nice
> tool
> > to set your own reverse DNS.
> >
> I just looked at that tool, and I don't understand it.  The address that
> pops up on the screen doesn't even look like our address!
> > -troy
>
>
>
> --
> Dave Sisley
> dsisley at sonic.net
> roth-sisley.net
>
>
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