Penning email from a user "other" than tfilePro

[John Esak]

And without looking at your demo... how would Litemail insert into the
following syntax:

     if:
   then: system "mail -s "subject" bill at somewhere.com
</tmp/assembled_body_texfile"


Does it fully "replace" my O/S's "mail" ?? so, I would just use:

   then: system "litemail -s "subject" bill at somewhere.com
</tmp/assembled_body_texfile"

John



> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Fairlight
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:41 AM
> To: filePro mailing list
> Subject: Re: Penning email from a user "other" than tfilePro
>
>
> With neither thought nor caution, John Esak blurted:
> > root"... and some other factors which govern this... So, in light of all
> > this, how should I run my process to ensure that it is mailed
> from something
> > more like "info at nexusplastics.com" or "quotes at nexusplastics.com".  Of
> [snip]
> > I get the data in from a process that runs based on incoming email, this
> > sends the data into a filepro process which sends out the auto
> response. At
> > what point should I be trying to change the user-id and how?
> Wasn't there a
> > PFEUID or something??
>
> Lightmail will let you arbitrarily set the sending address (and any other
> headers you want, like Reply-to: and the like) as you wish, regardless of
> the "facts", as it were.  There is no need to actually worry about EUID,
> UID, or anything other than what you -want- it to look like.
>
> Assuming you know exactly what address you want to send it out as being
> from, whether or not your process is actually running as that user is
> rendered wholly and utterly irrelevant.  In effect, you "forge" it.  So
> long as your SMTP outbound server (be it the sendmail-compliant MTA as
> an executable, or port 25 somewhere as a relay--it can utilise either
> transport method) allows outbound mail from the address specified,
> you're good to go.  IOW, you might not be able to send outbound as
> john at fairlite.com from your mail server, but that's a function of the MTA
> not being configured as an open relay, not of Lightmail--allow it at the
> MTA level (or use an open relay somewhere, I know they exist! *chuckle*)
> and it would work fine.
>
> Bottom line is that if you can decide somewhere in processing what address
> you actually want to use (I don't seem to read deciding as being your
> problem--your problem seems to revolve around circumventing the usual
> mechanisms to achieve the end result, at least in the way you present how
> you're looking at it), this will do the trick.
>
> Given the following argument:
>      -f "quotes at nexusplastics.com Nexus Plastics"
>
> Lightmail would assemble the following header:
>      From: "Nexus Plastics" <quotes at nexusplastics.com>
>
> Not a problem at all.
>
> You can even do:  -x "Reply-to: quote-responses at nexusplastics.com"
> And it would include that header as well.  Extra headers can be
> standard or
> such arbitrary things as X-Borkborkbork.  :)  You can supply as many as
> needed.
>
> It handles plaintext message bodies, HTML message bodies,
> unlimited numbers
> of attachments, as well as multiple To, Cc, and Bcc recipients.  Full
> documentation and free demos are available at:
>
>      http://lightmail.fairlite.com/
>
> For SCO OSR5, you need the UDK package installed in order for it to
> execute, but that's the only requirement.
>
> mark->
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