OT: noreply at ......

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Henry Arredondo propounded (on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 01:31:55PM -0600):
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| From: filepro-list-bounces+hxarredondo=lkqcorp.com at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+hxarredondo=lkqcorp.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
| Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:29 PM
| To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
| Subject: Re: OT: noreply at ......
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| On Fri, Jun 28, 2013, Richard D. Williams wrote:
| >On 6/27/2013 4:48 PM, Henry Arredondo wrote:
| >> When sending email within filepro processing to customers and venders, I wonder if there's a way of sending them as "noreply" instead of the user running the application, is there an argument to do that ?
| >>
| >> OS :  Unix 5.0.6
| >> Filepro: 5.6
| >
| >If you have mutt installed on your Unix box, this is how I do it in
| >Linux (Centos).
| >
| >create a mutt profile for your no reply.
| >i.e. /appl/MUTT/atk_noreply
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| There's no need to use a MUA such as mutt for this type of thing on any system that has sendmail or a sendmail replacement (e.g.
| postfix, smail2, even the treaded MMDF SCO mailers).  Simply create a mail message with whatever headers you want and pipe it or redirect the input to sendmail.  Something like this would work using the 'sendmail -t' option which gets the destination address from the headers which allows things like Bcc: headers or multiple recipient addresses.
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| cat <<DONE
| To: somebody at example.com
| From: do-not-replay at yourdomain.com
| Subject: whatever you want
| 
| This is the message body separated from the headers by one or more blank lines.
| DONE | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
| 
| Bill
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| I tested it and it works wonderful, I can even use whatever domain I want :)  .    I wonder if this is how hackers use spam servers to spam.
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| Thanks!
| 

Henry, why do you think this method facilitates spam?

And please, could you take the trouble to trim your posts -- quoting 100% of
what has gone before is annoying.

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JP