From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 4 13:59:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23389 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 13:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23380 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 13:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14874; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 22:55:57 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199608042055.WAA14874@grumble.grondar.za> To: tcg@ime.net cc: Frank Seltzer , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: mail Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 22:55:56 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Chrysler wrote: > > It will prompt you for your password, query the mail server and drop all > > your mail in your system mail folder. You can also run it from cron but > > you must use -p which will show up in a ps listing. You might > > not want to do this for security reasons. I do it on my home machine so I > > don't have to worry about someone seeing my password. Hope this helps. > > > > How does outgoing mail get addressed, I tried this (not very hard) > and my outgoing mail gave my address from my internal net, I need > it to match my account with my ISP, As if I had sent it from my ISP. The easiest way is to cheat with your mailer (PINE/ELM/MH/Whatever), and just set your from address there. Harder work would be to convice sendmail to do it for you. Look at the M4 macros in its source directort for some clues. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key