OT: noreply at ......

[Bill Campbell]

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

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.

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

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