Re: {bb} Changing the from user for mail notifications

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:35, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> This isn't specifically a Big Brother issue, but I've been told I 
> need to change the format of the messages I'm sending out  
> so that the sender is a valid account on our mail system.
> 
> The BBPAGER is a unix machine, and our mail system runs 
> on non-unix machines.  How can I change the sender from 
> a unix machine to appear as a valid user of our mail system?
> I'm figuring I should just be able to change the user from 
> "bbuser@server" to my user name in the mail system.
> 
> I'm not sure how to reconfigure the mail client to change the 
> default sender address.  Any thoughts or help is really 
> appreciated.

If you take a look in the etc/bbsys.sh file, it will tell you
which command is being used. You can then use the normal Unix
manual pages (e.g. man mail) to find out how to configure the
client.

If your BB user has a valid home directory, it's likely that
the options in a file ".mailrc" in that directory will be
respected. Otherwise, you may need to set an environment
variable to specify another options file to be used.

Cheers, Phil.



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