sendmail subject problem but with a twist

[Chris Moore]

I have to use sendmail to send a file via command line. I use sendmail
because the user account that sends it must be a registered user on
the company's email system. My test box has different usernames
(ptv1100 is the username on the test box and I must enter using that
ID) and company policy is that I use [email]joeblow@thiscompany.com[/email] to send
mail (ie spoof an address). Anything else is rejected by the mail
server. Adding joeblow to the test server is not an option either. I
can send the file in question by doing the following:
/usr/sbin/sendmail [email]-fjoeblow@thiscompany.com[/email]
[email]anotherperson@thiscompany.com[/email] < filename.xml

but I can't get a subject entered on the line. Anybody else solve
this?
Chris

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9e60fb9e.0406161449.4f1e316d@posting.google.com >,
[email]cmoore@linuxmail.org[/email] (Chris Moore) wrote:

> I have to use sendmail to send a file via command line. I use sendmail
> because the user account that sends it must be a registered user on
> the company's email system. My test box has different usernames
> (ptv1100 is the username on the test box and I must enter using that
> ID) and company policy is that I use [email]joeblow@thiscompany.com[/email] to send
> mail (ie spoof an address). Anything else is rejected by the mail
> server. Adding joeblow to the test server is not an option either. I
> can send the file in question by doing the following:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail [email]-fjoeblow@thiscompany.com[/email]
> [email]anotherperson@thiscompany.com[/email] < filename.xml
>
> but I can't get a subject entered on the line. Anybody else solve
> this?
> Chris

Sendmail expects the message header to be included in the standard
input. if you want a subject line, you have to feed it:

cat - filename.xml <<EOS | sendmail -t
From: [email]joeblow@thiscompany.com[/email]
To: [email]anotherperson@thiscompany.com[/email]
Subject: This is the subject

EOS

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Barry Margolin, [email]barmar@alum.mit.edu[/email]
Arlington, MA
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