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

[Dave Sisley]

E Frank Ball III wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:28:58AM -0800, Dave Sisley wrote:
>  > Sadly, I have to punt!  I googled quite a bit this morning and 
>  > configuring Sendmail to do what I want has proved more difficult than I 
>  > can deal with right now.
>
>
> sendmail sucks.  Don't even try to learn it.  Postfix is really simple
> by comparison.  The /etc/postfix/main.cf is pretty human readable.  You
> can probably get it running without reading any docs.  
>
> You set "mydomain=xxxx.tld", "myhostname=machine.xxxx.tld" and "myorigin = $mydomain".
>
>   
Yeah, I agree with regards to Postfix.  Not easy, but not the 
soul-crushing, demoralization that is sendmail.  The server I set up (& 
and am now using for this script, among other things) uses Postfix. 

-dave.

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Dave Sisley
dsisley at sonic.net
roth-sisley.net