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Date:      Sat, 05 Apr 2003 06:01:55 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sending mail with a script question
Message-ID:  <3E8EB7A3.6050401@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030404234509.A91877@skytrackercanada.com>
References:  <20030404234509.A91877@skytrackercanada.com>

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David Banning wrote:
> I am running a php program in a browser which eventually
> compiles some files and emails them to a person of their 
> choosing. The problem is that the system identifies the
> browser user as nobody.
> 
> I send the mail using a line something like;
> 
> cat textfile | mutt -s"Quote/Attachments" -afile1 -afile2 john@doe.com
> 
> but the problem is that the recipient sees the sender address as
> from "nobody@ourhost.com", when I want it seen as "david@ourhost.com".
> I have the name of the user available in the script but I see no
> way of running the mail script as that person since any browser viewing
> the system is "nobody".

Have you considered using php's "mail" function?  You can specify a
sender by specifying headers.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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