Hi there,

I've just finish setting up a postfix + relayhost conf thanks to :

http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix#Installing_and_Configuring_Postfix_on_Debi an

This works great. However using the `mail` command line interface I
can only send email from my main gmail adress. I did a small test
using `telnet localhost 25`, I can then specify any of my
pre-configured gmail adress (eg @free.fr).
However using telnet is pretty tedious. Does anyone knows what is the
command line option to specify the 'mail from:' information ?

Thanks much,
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On Jo, 12 apr 12, 11:37:46, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've just finish setting up a postfix + relayhost conf thanks to :
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix#Installing_and_Configuring_Postfix_on_Debi an
>
> This works great. However using the `mail` command line interface I
> can only send email from my main gmail adress. I did a small test
> using `telnet localhost 25`, I can then specify any of my
> pre-configured gmail adress (eg @free.fr).
> However using telnet is pretty tedious. Does anyone knows what is the
> command line option to specify the 'mail from:' information ?

From a (very) quick reading of 'man mail' it appears that at least
bsd-mailx does not support this, but I didn't check the other
implementations[1].

What are you trying to achieve? If you want to send mail from scripts
maybe you should use postfix' version of /usr/sbin/sendmail. If you need
a more capable command-line mailer mutt is a very good choice.

[1] 'apt-cache search mailx' finds bsd-mailx, heirloom-mailx and
mailutils

Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Apr 12, 2012 12:53 PM, "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:

> *This works great. However using the `mail` command line interface I

> can only send email from my main gmail adress. I did a small test

> using `telnet localhost 25`, I can then specify any of my

> pre-configured gmail adress (eg @free.fr).

> *However using telnet is pretty tedious. Does anyone knows what is the

> command line option to specify the 'mail from:' information ?


You can specify any headers with -a, e.g.


$ mail -a 'From: "My Name" <me@example.org>' da


Daniel Landau

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Landau
<daniel.landau@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2012 12:53 PM, "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> *This works great. However using the `mail` command line interface I
>> can only send email from my main gmail adress. I did a small test
>> using `telnet localhost 25`, I can then specify any of my
>> pre-configured gmail adress (eg @free.fr).
>> *However using telnet is pretty tedious. Does anyone knows what is the
>> command line option to specify the 'mail from:' information ?
>
> You can specify any headers with -a, e.g.
>
> $ mail -a 'From: "My Name" <me@example.org>' da
>

Not pretty but that works just like I wished ! Thanks much.


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